Product Description: This is the definitive text on the simple, safe and practical design of large metal storage silos. It provides advice on both the functional and structural design of silos and their assessment – it begins by indicating the critical information needed for such a design, follows with key assessments to achieve guaranteed flow of stored solids, and then goes on to describe in detail the pressures on silo walls under different conditions, the structural analysis required and the many different failure conditions that must be avoided...read more

Product Description: This book is the definitive guide to the simple, safe and economic design of circular metal storage silos. Commissioned by the British Materials Handling Board, and written by the convenor of the committee responsible for the new Eurocode on the structural design of silos, it provides advice on all aspects of silo design and assessment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)