Buckling Analysis of Cold Formed Silo Column

The paper is devoted to stability analysis of different models of steel cold formed silo column. The steel cylindrical silos are often composed of corrugated walls and vertical open-sectional columns uniformly placed along the silo circumference. Both the whole 3D silo, a simplified model consisting of one column with a part of the silo walls, and a single column resting on elastic foundation provided by the silo walls were analyzed. Linear buckling analyses were carried out using commercial FE package ABAQUS. Axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric loads imposed by a bulk solid following Eurocode 1 were considered. The calculated buckling loads of 1D column model were compared with the permissible one given by Eurocode 3 and with results found for the whole silo and a single column on elastic foundation modeled by shell elements.

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Opracowanie ze środków MNiSW w ramach umowy 812/P-DUN/2016 na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.