Concrete Grain Silo Repair

The floor slabs within the silos were thus made of cast in place concrete 8 9 or 10 inches thick depending on the diameter of the silo.

Concrete grain silo repair.

At nijac we repair concrete roof silos and grain elevators south dakota iowa and nationwide grain storage facilities depend on. Hopper installation or repair of existing hopper. Exterior concrete crack and patch repair. Whatever your silo repair or modification need marietta silos is ready to help.

Composite steel and concrete floor systems were considered but were found to increase slab thickness without reducing cost. To accomplish this we designed the following repair scope sketch 1 sketch detail and photo 1. Hanson silo company a better way to feed the world. Silo repair roofing and painting.

Install and resurface grain elevator hoppers. Concrete grain silo repair by timothy gumina1 and luis estenssoro2 in 2011 a coop in sidney nebraska discovered chunks of concrete within one bin of their eight bin grain silo structure. Stabilization and reinforcement. It s no secret that the less moisture there is in the environment the longer grain can be stored.

Spills and cracks in a concrete silo roof can cause leaks. And since our products are pre built and modular they allow for faster onsite. Gunite and dry wet mix shotcrete application in structure failure prevention and repair. We are ready to help with all of your grain silo repair or modification needs.

Proper roof maintenance is needed to keep the materials within the silo safe and dry as well as the silo below in a healthy condition. Liner installation helps to reinforce the silo walls so they can handle the weight and pressure of the bulk materials being stored. Constructed in a controlled environment the bunker walls are higher quality and stronger than those of our competitors. Silo roof repair as with any structure the roof of the silo generally receives the brunt of the physical and environmental abuse.

Find out if shotcrete or gunite is the solution for your concrete repair project. The repair solution was driven by harvest time schedules and budgets. Hanson silo s engineered precast concrete bunker silos are some of the most efficient cost effective large volume storage systems available. Fire and explosion damage.

Structural repair of grain silos can include repairs of the walls roof discharge cones and flat floors. Increasing slope or degree of existing hopper. For the vertical crack the solution was to reinforce the cracked and spalled sections of the bin wall to resist imposed horizontal grain loads and repair damaged concrete. Grain elevator roof repair including replacement sealing and coating.