eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2328-4110 2015-12-17 3 6 230 234 10.12691/ajme-3-6-15 AJME20153615 article Pavol Lengvarsky pavol.lengvarsky@tuke.sk 1 Miroslav Pástor 1 Jozef Bocko 1 Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical university of Košice, 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic The paper is devoted to the static analysis water tank. Three different thicknesses of walls of the water tank are proposed and the structure is analysed in order to find appropriate stress and deformation states of structure. The maximal stress level was higher than the yield strength of stainless steel used in structure so seven different variants of stiffeners were proposed for improving stability and strength of structure. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/3/6/15/ajme-3-6-15.pdf water tank container static analysis finite element method