Design of Storage Silo

Design of Storage Silo

Author Name : Narendra Kumar Chauhan, Mr. Chitranjan

ABSTRACT

Silos are the structures meant for storing materials like food grains, cement, coal, ore, crushed stone,gravel, clinker etc., in large quantities.  In this projectanalysis& structural design and has been done for a concrete silo based on all Indian standard code for practice. All the structural members like Silo walls & foundation are designed using Indian Standard code IS 4995 PART I & II, IS 456-2000, IS 1893 and IS 875.The structural components are designed by limit state method. Materials were used as specified by National Building Code. Concrete M30 grade and Fe500 steel bars were considered for all the design. Silo walls are 300 mm thick., diameter of silo is 16m & height of silo is 38m.