Industrial steel storage pallet racks are framed structures typically made of cold‐formed steel profiles. The characteristics and the variability of the racking systems make their behaviour quite complex to be predicted and the “design by testing” approach is commonly adopted. As part of an extensive research on the racks’ static and seismic behaviour, a total of eight full‐scale tests on four‐level two‐bay commercial pallet racks were recently carried out, taking advantage of an innovative full‐scale testing set‐up. The experimental plan comprised of two preliminary tests in which racks with an initial out‐of‐plumb were vertically loaded up to collapse and six monotonic push‐over tests with three different levels of vertical loads and an inverse triangular pattern of horizontal forces in the down-aisle (longitudinal) direction. Tests’ results also enabled evaluation of the racks’ behaviour factor q. The main features and findings of the experimental study are here presented and discussed.
Full-Scale Tests of Industrial Steel Storage Pallet Racksy / Baldassino, N.; Bernardi, M.; Zandonini, R.; Di Gioia, A.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2023), pp. 881-886. (Intervento presentato al convegno SEMC 2022- 8th International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation tenutosi a Cape Town nel 5-7 September 2022) [10.1201/9781003348443-144].
Full-Scale Tests of Industrial Steel Storage Pallet Racksy
Baldassino N.;Zandonini R.;
2023-01-01
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Industrial steel storage pallet racks are framed structures typically made of cold‐formed steel profiles. The characteristics and the variability of the racking systems make their behaviour quite complex to be predicted and the “design by testing” approach is commonly adopted. As part of an extensive research on the racks’ static and seismic behaviour, a total of eight full‐scale tests on four‐level two‐bay commercial pallet racks were recently carried out, taking advantage of an innovative full‐scale testing set‐up. The experimental plan comprised of two preliminary tests in which racks with an initial out‐of‐plumb were vertically loaded up to collapse and six monotonic push‐over tests with three different levels of vertical loads and an inverse triangular pattern of horizontal forces in the down-aisle (longitudinal) direction. Tests’ results also enabled evaluation of the racks’ behaviour factor q. The main features and findings of the experimental study are here presented and discussed.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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