For a silo of the same volume, is there any relationship between wall thickness and diameter?
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I would like to ask everyone, are the requirements for wall thickness different for a 150-square-meter silo with 4 legs and a diameter of 3.6m and 4.5m? Should the wall thickness for larger diameters be appropriately thickened? What design specifications should be followed for this kind of silo? I was confused after watching "GB 50884 2013", and it didn't feel exactly like what I needed.
The wall thickness is the same, but the reinforcing ribs are different. Please refer to the container design standards.
Agree with you. First of all, as a normal pressure vessel, the thickness is very small if calculated solely from the internal pressure. In this way, there is a minimum thickness, and in the end it is the thickness chosen by the designer, and the thickness taken also has an empirical value. So what should be considered in the design is an extreme situation. That is, a vacuum is generated when discharging materials, and there is external pressure. Therefore, if the diameter is different, the externally reinforced steel sections will be different.