Craig Thompson with WL Port-Land Systems, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, made a number of very valid statements in his Fourth Quarter 2014 article shared in Milling Journal titled "Concrete Silo Integrity." Craig mentioned a number of good points regarding soil-bearing and/or pile loading capacity.He pointed out that a "500,000-bushel concrete silo is holding approximately 14,000 tons of grain. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to begin quickly to appreciate just how important a properly-designed foundation system can be when subject to such heavy weights."
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