The aim of this paper is to present a recent experimental investigation of the wall pressure distribution observed during the emptying of a modeling silo, with and without inserts for four different heights hi of the insert base above the hopper outl
et. The experiments were carried out with corn, at the concrete lab. in faculty of civil engineering in Damascus university in Syria. The results show that the upper-cone with downer- truncated cone insert had a strong influence on the pressures in the silo.
This paper presents an experimental investigation of the flow pattern and wall pressure due to the change of the opening discharge diameter in cylindrical silos. The experiments were performed on a
metal silo prototype using corn as a granular mater
ial. The silo prototype used in the study was built of a metallic cylinder, which can be opened longitudinally allowing the observation of the flow pattern
through a plexi-glass wall, and the wall pressure distribution was measured using a special granular pressure transducer. The present study revealed unexpected results to what might be expected through
current theoretical knowledge.
The aim of this paper is to present a recent experimental investigation of the wall pressure distribution observed during the emptying of a modeling silo, with and without, inserts, for three different
heights hi of the insert base above the hopper
outlet. The experiments were carried out with corn, at the concrete lab. in faculty of civil engineering in Damascus university in Syria. The results show that the upper-cone with downer-cone trunk insert had a strong influence on the pressures in the silo.
