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Equiv fluid pressure of bulk fertilizer

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Sep 5, 2007
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I'm supposed to be putting some preliminary numbers together to retain some bulk fertilizer. Is there a conservative way to estimate the fluid pressure that would be exerted on the wall due to various types of bulk fertilizer? Is salt storage retaining wall design much different?

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Get the unit weight of the fertilizer and multiply it by 0.5 to get approximate equivalent fluid pressure. Similar approach for salt storage.
 
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