Stress Analysis of Grain Steel Silo with Hole

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The stress of the grain steel silo is complex. Recently, many grain silos scraped during their service life. The results of finite element analysis by COMSOL show that the cause of the structure failure is the stress concentration caused by the expanding of the hole. Analysis on different hole on the wall of the silo and different frame to strengthen the hole was also studied. Considering the impact of the weight of the structure, the pressure and friction force caused by the storage of the grain and wind load. The analysis turn out that, if the frame of the hole is identical, the stress level and the first principal strain in condition of circular hole is lower than that of rectangular condition, and the maximum vertical displacement of circular hole is smaller than rectangular. In addition, if the hole is the same, the stress level and the first principal strain in condition of U-shaped frame is lower than that of square condition, but the maximum vertical displacement U-shaped frame is bigger than square frame. Therefore, we can’t reduse the stress level by strenthening the frame.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 594-597)

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666-671

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November 2012

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