Este artículo describe las acciones en los silos según EN 1991-4. En un ejemplo de un silo cilíndrico independiente para cemento con una tolva cónica, se calcularon las cargas de llenado de la tolva del silo.
In the AISC 360 – 14th Ed. C2.2, the direct analysis method requires initial imperfections to be taken into consideration. The important imperfection of recognition is column out-of-plumbness. According to C2.2a, the direct modeling of imperfections is one method to account for the effect of initial imperfections. However, in many situations, the expected displacements may not be known or easily predicted.