Wind loads on circular storage bins, silos and tanks III. Fluctuating and peak pressure distributions

Abstract Previous papers have described wind tunnel measurements on isolated and grouped storage bins, silos and tanks of circular cross-section. In this paper, distributions of fluctuating and peak pressures on the walls of both isolated and grouped silos are described. They were generated using the techniques of eigenvector analysis of the covariance matrix, and “coincident peak” sampling.