Long-term sharing of load between steel and concrete in the walls of cylindrical reinforced concrete silos Available to Purchase

When designing reinforced concrete silos, it is common to assume that the concrete carries no tension and that hoop tension in the silo wall is carried entirely by the hoop reinforcing. In fact, the concrete may carry a considerable proportion of the hoop tension when the silo is filled for the first time, and the sharing of load between steel and concrete may persist through many years of continuous service, with repeated filling and emptying of the silo. The paper presents four case histories of strain measurements made on reinforced concrete silos that illustrate the long-term sharing of load between steel and concrete in silo walls during service.