RESEARCH ARTICLE
Design and Analysis of Automated Rack Supported Warehouses
Silvia Caprili*, Francesco Morelli, Walter Salvatore, Agnese Natali
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 150
Last Page: 166
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-12-150
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501812010150
Article History:
Received Date: 20/4/2018Revision Received Date: 22/05/2018
Acceptance Date: 23/05/2018
Electronic publication date: 29/6/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
The lack of codified standards for the design of automated rack supported warehouses forced engineers to use personal experience and commonly accepted rules.
Objective:
This paper investigates the efficacy of applying Eurocodes’ rules for the design and analysis of automated rack supported warehouses. Structural performance, construction feasibility and economic effort are considered.
Method:
A typical case study building was designed following the two approaches proposed by Eurocodes: elastic and dissipative.
Results:
The satisfaction of the capacity design requirements, used for dissipative approach, was not always possible. Analyses showed the development of non-uniform collapse mechanisms and yielding patterns.
Conclusion:
Specific design rules and analysis techniques shall be developed accounting for the structural performance of automated rack supported warehouses.