Year
2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering
Abstract
Industrial steel storage pallet racking systems are used extensively worldwide to store goods. Forty percent of all goods are stored on storage racks at some time during their manufacture-to-consumption life. In 2017, goods worth USD 16.5 billion were carried on cold-formed steel racking systems in seismically active regions worldwide. Historically, these racks are particularly vulnerable to collapse in severe earthquakes. In the 2010/2011 Christchurch earthquakes, around NZD 100 million of pallet racking stored goods were lost, with much greater associated economic losses due to disruptions to the national supply chain.
A novel component, the friction slipper baseplate, has been designed and developed to very significantly improve the seismic performance of a selective pallet racking system in both the cross-aisle and the down-aisle directions. This thesis documents the whole progress of the development of the friction slipper baseplate from the design concept development to experimental verification and incorporation into the seismic design procedure for selective pallet racking systems.
Recommended Citation
Tang, Zhenghao, Development of a friction sliding system for enhanced seismic resilience of selective pallet racking systems, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2019. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/661
FoR codes (2008)
0905 CIVIL ENGINEERING
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