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Storage systems

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 342-6501/02
Abbreviation SSPL
Course title Storage systems
Credits 5
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Robert Brázda, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic terminology and terms, Description of storage systems load.
2. Load classification of storage systems, Geometry of storage systems.
3. Design situations for solids, for different geometrical arrangements of storage systems, for special shapes of storage systems and for liquids stored in a storage system.
4. Mechanical - physical properties of stored materials.
5. Loading of vertical walls during filling and emptying - slender, low, medium slender and closed storage systems.
6. Loads when emptying storage systems with great eccentricity.
7. Storage systems containing aerated stored material, Loading of hoppers containing aerated stored material.
8. Pressures caused by lowering the ambient temperature.
9. Loading of hoppers - steep and shallow, Loading of hoppers during filling and emptying.
10. Bottom loading of storage systems - flat bottoms of lean, low and medium lean storage systems.
11. Liquid loading of storage systems.
12. Loads caused by dust explosions.
13. Wind load.
14. Snow load.

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Literature

BROWN, C. J.; NIELSEN, J. Silos: fundamentals of theory, behaviour and design. London and New York. Taylor & Francis, 1998. ISBN 0-419-21580-8.
SCHULZE, D. Powders and bulk solids: behavior, characterization, storage and flow. Berlin: Springer, 2008. ISBN 978-3-540-73767-4.
BLIGHT, G. Assessing loads on silos and other bulk storage structures: research applied to practice. London: Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 0-415-39237-3.
SHAHINPOOR, M. Advances in the mechanics and the flow of granular materials volume I. TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS, 1983. ISBN 0-87849-049-3 .
SHAHINPOOR, M. Advances in the mechanics and the flow of granular materials volume II. TRANS TECH PUBLICATIONS, 1983. ISBN 087849-050-7 .
EN 1991-4 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 4: Silos and tanks
EN 1991-1-4 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-4: General actions- Wind loads
EN 1991-1-3 Eurocode 1: Actions on structures - Part 1-3: General actions- Snow loads
EN 1993-4-1 Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures - Část 4-1: Silos

Advised literature

GROSSEL, S.S.; ZALOSH R.G. Guidelines for safe handling of powders and bulk solids. New York: Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, c2005. ISBN 0-8169-0951-2.
JENIKE, A.W. Gravity flow of bulk solids. Utah, Salt Lake City, Bulletin of the University of Utah, Vol. 52., No. 29, 1961.


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