Empirically Based Gamma-Distributed Random Wall Pressure Field in Silo
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 125, Issue 5
Abstract
Measurements show that silo wall pressures exhibit large fluctuations in time and space during discharge of the silo. This observation is important for the design of the silo wall because spatial pressure variations may impose substantial bending moments in the silo wall that otherwise may be small or vanishing due to the carrying ability of the membrane forces in the silo wall. Information about the stochastic properties of this pressure variation cannot be obtained from any existing continuum model for the silo medium flowing within the confinement of the silo. Therefore the modeling must presently be tied to statistical analyses of the empirical evidence combined with simple mechanical principles. This paper analyzes the same data set as that analyzed by Munch-Andersen et al., but on the basis of a completely different and physically less disputable stochastic pressure field model than the one considered by them. It is shown that an explicitly constructed gamma distribution type of field in equilibrium with itself fits well to the measurements made in the Swedish Karpalund silo.
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