Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Methods of silo strengthening walls in practice
M. Kaminski & M. Maj
Institute of Building Engineering, Technical University of Wrocław, Poland
ABSTRACT: Same methods of strengthening of concrete reinforced silo walls are presented in this article.
Some methods of repairing silo are used in the same type of silo construction: external pressurising by using
type “x” of connecting tendons, application of a discharge device reducing pressure of material, gunite with
additional reinforced steel bars, using pressurised methods by external steel hooping. Additional the reliability
of this strengthened ...