The market opportunity and technical evaluation for the spherical steel structure application in China

✍ Scribed by Han Weiji; Li Yuzhi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 49 KB
• Volume: 46
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0143-974X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0143-974x(98)80058-8

✦ Synopsis

This paper gives an overview of the successful and widespread application of spherical steel structure and spherical vessels in the domain of industries of urban construction, power exploration, environmental conservation, petrochemical industry, machinery manufacturing, traffic transportation, aeronautic application, farming irrigation and mining metallurgy.

By detailed illustration of the current situation and technical level of the 4 000 sets of spherical vessels constructed in China, it not only analyses the market opportunities of the hundreds of sets of spherical vessels producted annually, but also evaluates them in view of safety, economic and technical factors.