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Question about welding steel...?

Hello. I was wondering if welding a 20 x 20 x 3 feet thick sheet of galvinized steel to a steel silo will hold 200 Tons of weight. Would that thick steel sheet welded to the silo's interior be able to withstand 200 tons of weight?

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Your information is incomplete or in error 3 feet thick is impossible to weld in any practical sense and is not sheet anyway it is a block. And 20x20 doesn't work as a silo unless it is to be curved to a cylinder 20 feet in circumference and 20 feet tall. And 200 tons inside a cylinder is different from 200 tons on top of a cylinder and you don't name the material or give a density. We don't know the shape.

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