The RFEM program is the basis of a modular software system. The main program RFEM is used to define structures, materials, and loads for planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells and members. The program also allows you to create combined structures as well as model solid and contact elements.
For structural analysis of silos and storage tanks, find more useful add-on modules under the Steel Structures industry.
Aquamate, a leading manufacturer of corrugated water tanks in Australia, plans to enter the North American market by the end of 2016.
Therefore, it is necessary to verify that the tanks meet all US codes and standards before the end of the year.
Butadiene storage tanks of the French company ARLANXEO Emulsion Rubber France, one of the biggest producers of synthetic rubber NBR in the world, had to be recalculated to comply with the seismic requirements of Eurocode 8.
The project for designing a filter/dryer device including agitator required a complete stress and deformation analysis in RFEM.
A special design challenge represented the complex modeling of the structue having 1,424 surfaces, 158 solids and 425 members.
On the site of Baumit GmbH in Landsberg/Lech, a second mixing plant for ground building materials was built in 2015.
The steel structure supports the silo grating located at +85 ft which includes a total of 36 silos.
The 100-year-old gasometer in Pforzheim, Germany, was threatened by demolition.
The steel structure of the former gas storage facility has been transformed to an extraordinary event area for the 360° panorama exhibition.
Silos are used as large containers for storing bulk materials such as agricultural products or source materials as well as intermediates of industrial production. Structural engineering of such structures requires a precise knowledge of the stresses due to particulate solids in the building structure. The standard EN 1991‑4 “Actions on Silos and Tanks” [1] provides general principles and requirements for determining these actions.
My previous article describes actions on silos according to EN 1991‑4. With an example of a free standing cylindrical silo for cement with a conical hopper, filling loads of the silo hopper were calculated.
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Product Video: How Dlubal Software works for structural analysis and design of steel structures
Webinar: Tank, Silo, and Shell Modeling in RFEM
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Structural engineering software for finite element analysis (FEA) of planar and spatial structural systems consisting of plates, walls, shells, members (beams), solids and contact elements
Add-on Module
Stress analysis of steel surfaces and members
Add-on Module
Design of steel members according to Eurocode 3
Module Extension for RF-STEEL EC3
Warping torsion analysis according to the second-order theory with 7 degrees of freedom
Module Extension for RF-STEEL EC3
Plastic design of cross-sections according the Partial Internal Forces Method (PIFM) and Simplex Method
Add-on Module
Stability analysis according to the eigenvalue method
Add-on Module
Generation of equivalent geometric imperfections and pre-deformed initial structures for nonlinear calculations
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