Vertical floor pressures during filling of a full-scale grain bin

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1093-1100

  Thompson, S A ^a,c   Galili, N ^a,b   Williams, R A ^a  

^a ASAE ^*

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Grain Bin; Pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029844628     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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