| A simple summary of structure design, pressures distribution, stresses distribution, failure modes of a typical elevated steel silo are presented in the thesis. The collapse and buckling behaviors of hoppers and transition junctions in a uniformly supported silo is studied emphatically. By using the concept of effective area, the model of a realistic silo is built and analyzed. The collapse and buckling behaviors of the static model is analyzed and calculated by Rotter's method and the finite element analysis program LS-DYNA. Furthermore, the paper compares the results with the predictions of Rotter . Several important design aspects of hoppers and transition junctions in column-supported silos are also discussed.
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