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EPSRC Reference:	GR/R88755/01
Title:	Transfer of the Danish Test Facility for Silo Pressures and Solids Flow
Principal Investigator:	Rotter, Professor JM
Other Investigators:	Ooi, Professor JY
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Department:	Infrastructure and Envronmental Res Cen
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 April 2002	Ends:	30 September 2003	Value (£):	66,709
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Civil Engineering Materials
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Construction
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SummaryDescribe the proposed research in about 200 words.The Technical University of Denmark has made a very generous offer to donate its unique and world-renowned large model silo test facility at Lyngby to he University of Edinburgh. This application seeks support to take full advantage of this offer, so that many more years of accurate, reliable and practically useful observations may be obtained from this unique facility, instead of it being scrapped and thus lost to the world.Once established, this test facility is capable of being used for a wide range of scientific investigations of solids flow and silo pressures. The accuracy with which is has been constructed and the precision of the instrumentation are unequalled in the world. There are many problems in solids flow and silo pressures for structural design which have never been addressed, and many aspects that remain the subject of serious controversy between researchers and practitioners. There are very significant economic consequences if either the reseachers demand much stronger silos, or the practitioners continue to design structures that lead to high failure rates.The re-establishment of this test facility to answer key questions under the control of active researchers, is highly desirable. Once established, this facility will permit a variety of grant applications to be made to funding bodies in Europe, the US and the UK.
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