Steel storage racks are typically made of thin-walled cold formed steel profiles, which prove to be the most versatile, economic and sustainable elements for industrial rack construction. Their lightweight structural systems are usually designed to resist heavy load units, reaching considerable heights. However, the global behavior of storage racks under seismic actions is much less predictable than the behavior of steel buildings made of standard steel profiles and connections, mainly due to the perforations in their thin walled upright columns, and their semi-rigid beam-column and base plate joints. Full scale experimental investigations are greatly needed in order to understand and quantify the global performance of storage racks, and improve their design for seismic actions.

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Gian Paolo Chiarelli,Alper Kanyilmaz, Carlo Andrea Castiglioni, Giovanni Brambilla,.Experimental assessment of the seismic behavior of unbraced steel storage pallet racks. 108 (0),391-405.

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Gian Paolo Chiarelli,Alper Kanyilmaz, Carlo Andrea Castiglioni, Giovanni Brambilla,"Experimental assessment of the seismic behavior of unbraced steel storage pallet racks"