Silage Bunker Walls
Silage Bunker Walls
(OP)
I have been asked to design free standing silage bunker walls. I was just wondering what pressure I should design the walls for when the bunker is full as well as the surcharge applied to the wall by a tractor packing the pile of removing silage from the pile.
There is a covered portion of the bunker which has 12ft tall concrete walls and is covered by a pre engineered metal building. The open portion has 16ft walls.
Is there a good refernce for loading of agricultural structures like this?
Any help would be appreciated.
There is a covered portion of the bunker which has 12ft tall concrete walls and is covered by a pre engineered metal building. The open portion has 16ft walls.
Is there a good refernce for loading of agricultural structures like this?
Any help would be appreciated.






RE: Silage Bunker Walls
Powders and Bulk Solids
Dietmar Schulze
Springer 2008
The building attachment (conjointly with the silo) should be analyzed as pertains for a builidng of the proper use.
Of course if it is expected significant seismic action, everything, inner silo pressures included, need be atuned to such possibility.
RE: Silage Bunker Walls
That is just my idea of how to approach it, as I don't know of an appropriate reference.
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Oh, and the cows are all easy to tip after they have eaten...
Mike McCann
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