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Most of the commercial vehicle steering system is hydraulic. In this system, Breakage and leakage of oil tank is the cause of serious problems to inhibiting the vehicle direction control of the driver. In this paper, FSI(Fluid-Structure Interaction) analysis was performed considering the sloshing of oil in the tank for structural safety evaluation of the power steering oil tank. Additionally, vibration analysis of simple and fast evaluation method was performed by assuming the fluid to mass. As a result, sloshing analysis of oil in the tank was confirmed from the FSI vibration analysis, and it could get the distribution of the flow pressure 8.2kPa～-5.5kPa. Second, stress change of the FSI vibration analysis results was greater in the 33.6MPa to 0.25MPa during the transitional period 2cycle, then it showed a stable result. Third, maximum stress of FSI vibration analysis considering sloshing of the oil was 2.22MPa. maximum stress of vibration analysis assuming the fluid to mass was 4.50MPa and 103% higher than the FSI vibration analysis, but the oil tank was safely evaluate structurally safety factor 14.1. Finally, without the FSI vibration analysis by applying a weight of 0.5 to the result of vibration analysis assumes fluid to mass, it could be obtained results similar to FSI vibration analysis.