U.S. Netherlands Cooperative Research on Bulk Solids Inter- action with Hopper Silos During Gravity Flow

该奖项将使俄亥俄州立大学的Alfred G. Bishara教授能够与Ir。F.J.C. Rademacher，荷兰特温特大学。他们将研究流动条件下散装固体与料斗筒仓壁之间的相互作用。在散装固体的重力流作用下，料斗筒仓结构损坏和破坏的发生率很高，这表明了进行这项研究的必要性。随着农业、采矿、化工、滑移等行业中筒仓的数量和尺寸的不断增加，了解这些结构对各种载荷条件的响应变得更加重要。许多筒仓建筑规范是建立在良好设计的不完全证据基础上的。Bishara教授擅长散装固体筒仓相互作用的有限元分析，Rademacher教授擅长散装固体在料斗筒仓中流动的参数化实验研究。他们的技能对他们过去成功合作的研究是互补和有用的。

This award will enable Professor Alfred G. Bishara, Ohio State University, to collaborate with Professor Ir. F.J.C. Rademacher, University of Twente, The Netherlands. They will study the interactions between bulk solids and hopper silo walls under flow conditions. The need to do this research is indicated by the high incidence of hopper silo structural damage and failure that takes place under gravity flow of bulk solids. The increasing number and size of silos in agriculture, mining, chemical, slipping and other industries makes it more important to understand the response of these structures to various loading conditions. Many silo construction codes are based on incomplete evidence for good design. Professor Bishara is expert in the finite element analysis of bulk solids silo interactions and Professor Rademacher is skilled in parametric experimental investigations of the flow of bulk solids in hopper silos. Their skills are complementary and useful to the research they have successfully collaborated in the past.