Deconstructing Single-Specialty Silos

NewsBriefs: Missile Silos Transformed into Unusual Homes (WAMU, American University Radio)

Book Review: Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable about Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues into Competitors by Patrick Lencioni. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006

Cold Regions: Engineers Brave Subarctic Weather to Install Missile Silos in Alaska

Vibro-Replacement in Residual Soils for Grain Storage Silos

Mechanical Behavior of Stored Bulk Deformable Particles

Discrete Element Modeling of Particulate Solids in Silos

Granular Flow Based on Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Sensitivity Analysis of the Seismic Capacity for a RC Silo Due to Variance of Its Material Properties

Solar Stretch
Extrapolating from structural work with textile or metal membrane roofs to cover silos, assembly halls and sports stadia, Schlaich, Bergermann and Partners, a structural engineering firm...

Settlement of a Silo Subjected to Cyclic Loading
The paper presents the vertical settlement values for a corn silo located at Ca' Mello, close to Porto Tolle (Italy), and compares it with the theoretical results obtained using a simplified...

Pin Piles Save Silos
The United Grain Corp. annually ships about 200 million bushels of wheat and other grains to destinations around the world from its leased facility on the Columbia River at Vancouver,...

Design and Performance of Two Port Silos on Improved Ground

Design of Large Capacity Coal Silos for Service Life
Design and construction of Large Capacity Coal Silos for service life requires a careful consideration of the silo configuration as well as the material handling system. This paper presents...

Condition Assessment Experience with Silos and Bunkers
This paper presents a methodology for condition assessment of coal silos and bunkers for retrofitting projects. Some typical problems such as corrosion, erosion, vibrations and buckling...

Linear Elastic Finite Element Analysis of Axisymmetric Shells on Elastic Foundations
Thin-walled cylindrical silos containing compacted bulk solids show a significant increase in strength over empty silos under meridional compression. A finite element model is used which...

Performance of Two Metal Grain Bins on Compressible Alluvium

Large Reinforced Concrete Active Reclaim Silos
The design and construction of large reinforced concrete shell silos used to provide economical short-term protected storage for coal and lignite in the active reclaim systems of power...

Predictions of Thermally Induced Stresses in Thin Walled Grain Storage Bins Under Declining Ambient Temperatures
A generalized constitutive equation for cohesionless sands based on elasto-plastic theories is applied to a grain bin system. The validity of the theory is established through the finite...

Superhard Concrete Silos for MX

 

 

 

 

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