03.20: Experimental tests on beam‐end connectors of cold‐formed steel storage pallet racks

Giordano, Saverio; Gusella, Federico; Lavacchini, Giovanni; Orlando, Maurizio; Spinelli, P.

doi:10.1002/cepa.105

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“…Several previous test campaigns on this issue have been reported [11,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. The most recent studies related to the presented research are listed and discussed next:…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• [Giordano et al 2017]. This study [30] reports on monotonic and cyclic tests on beam-end connectors of cold-formed steel storage pallet racks.…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• [Giordano et al 2017]. This study [30] reports on monotonic and cyclic tests on beam-end connectors of cold-formed steel storage pallet racks. Similar to [29], two weld configurations between the beam and the end-plate are considered: lateral sides and all around.…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The general testing procedure and mockup are basically taken from the work of Roure et al (2013) [27], since those experiments were performed in the same laboratory and using similar specimens. The idea of investigating the performance for different weld bead configurations was inspired by the studies of Gusella et al (2018) [32], Giordano et al (2017) [30] and, mainly, Yin et al (2016) [29]. This last paper describes welds that span the entire perimeter of the beam section; this research takes a step forward by analyzing even more intense weld configurations (with the goal of obtaining ductile failure modes).…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ductility improvement of adjustable pallet rack speed-lock connections: Experimental study

Bové

Almansa

Ferrer

et al. 2022

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

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This paper presents seismic cantilever monotonic and cyclic tests of speed-lock (boltless) beam-to-upright connections of adjustable pallet rack systems; the objective of the monotonic tests is to obtain the bounds that are employed to define the loading protocol of the subsequent cyclic tests. The beam-to-upright connections consist of welding the beam to an intermediate end-plate (L-shaped) that, in its turn, is linked to the upright through a hooked assembly. The performed experiments investigate the connections hysteretic behavior, as it contributes to the rack lateral strength, stiffness, and ductility. More precisely, the main objective of this research is to propose a new strengthened design of the weld beads geometric configuration. This design is oriented for the connection failure not to arise in the weld, but the hooked assembly. This shift is expected to increase the connection ductility; in this sense, specimens with traditional and novel weld geometric designs are tested. In most of the tests performed, the results confirm that the new weld design leads to more ductile failure modes; preliminary evaluations state that the ductility increase might be sufficient to absorb most of the input seismic energy. On the other hand, tests are conducted according to two loading protocols: the traditional one by following European regulations and a new strategy proposed by Prof. Castiglioni accounting for the influence of gravity loads. Comparison between their results shows that the Castiglioni approach is more demanding and seems to reproduce the actual seismic behavior of racks better.

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Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• [Giordano et al 2017]. This study [30] reports on monotonic and cyclic tests on beam-end connectors of cold-formed steel storage pallet racks.…”

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: State-of-the-art Of Testing Of Beam-to-upright Connectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ductility improvement of adjustable pallet rack speed-lock connections: Experimental study

Bové

Almansa

Ferrer

et al. 2022

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

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“…As discussed in Section 4.3, the cyclic experiments are carried out according to an innovative imposed displacement protocol that differs from [27] in the sense that the effect of the weight of the stored products is explicitly considered; both testing procedures are compared in [29,30,42]. • Giordano et al [43]. This study reports monotonic and cyclic tests on beam-end connectors of cold-formed steel storage pallet racks.…”

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confidence: 99%