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| Author(s): |
Andrés Batista Cheung
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2007-08-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Carlito Calil Junior;
André Teófilo Beck;
Ari Antonio Negrisoli;
Walter Savassi;
Maria Cecilia Amorim Teixeira da Silva
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| Advisor: | Carlito Calil Junior |
| Abstract | |
Vertical silos are structures with a large number of deformations and failures mainly due to misunderstanding of pressure variability of the storage products. The aim of this work is theoretical, numerical and experimental study of wall pressure in slender silos with the incorporation of stochastic properties of the parameters in pressures models used in the international literature. The most relevant parameters of the pressure models were adjusted to the experimental data obtained from a pilot-silo using maximum likelihood function, and for this purpose, genetic algorithms (GA) were used in the optimization procedure. The experimental evaluation in pilot-silo was conducted with three different bulk solids, which are: maize, soy and animal feed mixture. With the pressures models parameters, the structural reliability of flat bottom corrugated cylindrical steel silos with was evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation (SMC) to simulate a stochastic process. The results showed that Janssen (1895) and Jenike et al. (1973) pressure models can be used to evaluate the pressures with the parameters uncertainties modeled to lognormal distributions. The reliability index determined in this structural system was less than international recommended values for the design of slender silos. (AU) | |