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Design and Analysis of Automated Rack Supported Warehouses
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.
