Papers by Jørgen Munch-Andersen
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Powder Technology, 1985
Abstract Results from tests with central filling and central and eccentric discharge of barley in... more Abstract Results from tests with central filling and central and eccentric discharge of barley in a medium-scale model silo are reported. Special attention is paid to the description of recently installed shear cells and to results obtained with these. Equilibrium checks were carried out in the filling situation, showing that the friction load on the silo wall determined from shear cell measurements deviates about 3% when compared with the known weight of the grain minus the known bottom load. The deviations in two situations during central discharge were found to be 6% and 10%. It is concluded that the shear cells produce reliable results. Wall friction coefficients were found to be about 0.58 during central filling and about 0.43 during discharge. The very low pressure level in the silo model is supposed to be responsible for the high coefficient found during filling.
Monday, 24 April 2006 - 1:20 PM 40b. Pressure Measurements in Full-Scale Steel Silos. Alvaro Ramí... more Monday, 24 April 2006 - 1:20 PM 40b. Pressure Measurements in Full-Scale Steel Silos. Alvaro Ramírez 1 , Jørgen Nielsen 2 , Francisco Ayuga 1 , and Jørgen Munch-Andersen 2 . (1) Department of Construction and Rural Roads, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Avda. ...
Indoor and Built Environment, 2009
Increased requirement for the thermal insulation of buildings and reduction of energy consumption... more Increased requirement for the thermal insulation of buildings and reduction of energy consumption in order to decrease their carbon dioxide emission means that buildings only 30 years old are of a very low standard compared to today’s requirements. Therefore, there is a strong need to improve the insulation of many existing buildings. Improving insulation can be a risky business as experience has shown that different sorts of degradation will often occur after such work. On the other hand, improvement of the insulation could contribute to making a building more attractive to tenants. This article deals with good technical solutions for improving the insulation of concrete sandwich panel buildings from the 1960s and 1970s as well as how the savings in supplied energy can be estimated in a simple and accurate manner.
Engineering Structures, Nov 1, 2011
This paper discusses the robustness of large-span timber roof structures, based on findings from ... more This paper discusses the robustness of large-span timber roof structures, based on findings from failures of two roof structures. One is the Siemens arena in Ballerup, Denmark and the other the Bad Reichenhall ice-arena in Germany. The structures are described as well as the flaws that are believed to have caused the failures. The two cases serve as examples of different design strategies for large-span timber roof structures and the consequences of such strategies for robustness. It is demonstrated that robustness is not a ∧ straightforward concept because the best strategy depends on the cause of the failure-which ∧ was obviously not known during planning and design.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics-asce, Sep 1, 1995
ABSTRACT During the emptying phase silo wall pressures show large random fluctuations in time and... more ABSTRACT During the emptying phase silo wall pressures show large random fluctuations in time and space. The nonuniform variations of the pressure along the wall have a decisive influence on the bending moments in the silo wall. It seems difficult to formulate continuum mechanical models to explain these fluctuations that turn out very sensitive to the random geometrical imperfections of the silo wall. This empirical evidence calls for random process and field descriptions of the pressure variations. On the basis of the philosophy of stochastic interpolation, a parametric covariance model with a minimal number of parameters is formulated. The choice of model is guided by the property that in linear regression interpolation the covariance function acts analogously to an interpolating spline function. The covariance model is required to satisfy the equations of equilibrium in any horizontal layer of the silo medium assuming as a reasonable approximation that the horizontal cross section of the medium is without shear force. In the first of two companion papers, the model is adapted to a specific set of measurements from pressure cells situated along a horizontal perimeter of a circular cylindrical concrete silo. In the third paper the model is applied in a reliability analysis example.
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Wood Material Science and Engineering, Sep 7, 2016
ABSTRACT A theory on the lateral load-carrying capacity of timber connections with slender fasten... more ABSTRACT A theory on the lateral load-carrying capacity of timber connections with slender fasteners is presented. The base of the theory is the coupled mechanical phenomena acting in the connection, while the wood and the slender fastener deform and yield prior to failure. The objective is to derive a sufficient description of actions and responses which have determining influence on the load-carrying capacity of timber connections with slender fasteners. Model assumptions are discussed and made, but simplifications are left out. Even so, simple mathematical equations describing the lateral capacity are derived from mechanical equilibrium of the deformed fastener. The herein proposed theory is verified against tests. The tests were designed to vary the influence of isolated mechanical phenomenon as much as possible. The theory shows a very high accuracy and precision when predicting the load-carrying capacity of the tested connections.
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