ABSTRACT
This research was developed purposing to generate technical hints for the design of steel prismatic silos for industrial use, especially in the ration industry, as well as to contribute for development of future Brazilian standard specifically for the design of actions and flow in silos. For this purpose the panels of construction of prismatic silos were studied for ration factory conformed in zigzag, in natural scale, that formed the walls of the prismatic silos for the construction to modulate. The experimental results were compared with obtained those with the simplified theories proposed for the structural calculation of silos and with the structural software LUSAS, that uses the method of the finite elements. The comparison of the theoretical results with those obtained in the tests shows that the theory of Troitsky (1988) presents good correlation with the tested data, therefore being adequate for the design of the panels
Key words:
silos; metallic; panels; ration