Analysis of pressures in a storage silo of bean cultivars with different types of steel
International Journal of Development Research
Analysis of pressures in a storage silo of bean cultivars with different types of steel
Received 03rd August, 2021; Received in revised form 17th September, 2021; Accepted 19th October, 2021; Published online 30th October, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Diego José Araújo Bandeira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The Brazilian agricultural production exceeds the storage capacity, with that the construction of silo becomes essential, being the loads exerted by the product stored in the structure, the main factor for disasters in silos. In view of this, the present work aims to determine the pressures exerted by bean cultivars, according to EUROCODE 1. The experiment was conducted at the Laboratory of Rural Constructions and Ambience - LACRA of the Federal University of Campina Grande, in the municipality of Campina Grande- PB, analyzing the different types of beans: carioquinha (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), black (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and macassar (Vigna unguiculata). The physical and flow characteristics of the products were measured, and two types of steel were used, being smooth steel and rough steel, to determine the pressure exerted by these cultivars in the storage silo. It was concluded that the products are classified as coarse grains, with free flow, the pressures exerted by the product are consistent with the norms established in the Eurocode 1 standard.
