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Problems with concrete tower silos

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SubjectConcrete; silos (farms); soil bearing capacity tests; failure (deficiency); soil investigation; case studies
Abstract
Several thousand tower silos are erected on Canadian farms each year, and for the most part perform very well. Recently some problems with larger structures have appeared in connection with bearing capacity of the soils, inadequate and underdesigned foundations, silage juices, deterioration of concrete with time, relaxation of steel hoops, non- uniform placement of silage, and overloading resulting in deformation and overstressing of silo walls. These problems are discussed in the six selected case histories presented in this paper.
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  • Canadian Agricultural Engineering 21, no. 2 (December 1979): 69–77.
LanguageEnglish
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IdentifierDBR-P-877
NRC numberNRCC 17952
NRC-IRC-71
NPARC number20338281
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