High-bay warehouses are an important part of our supply for the now highly sensitive logistics chains. For this reason, we are all the more pleased that our know-how has been in high demand recently. If earthquakes and tightness are added to the”high”and”warehouse”,things become very exciting for our structural engineers.
Due to the complex interaction of waterproofing technicians, normative approaches, and the forces occurring from wind, earthquakes & buoyancy, we had to leave standardization and approval behind us and a realistic calculation – in accordance with the CBFEMmethod – was used. Furthermore, in cooperation with a well-known manufacturer, an individual engineering assessment of the static system was carried out. In view of the highly complex interaction of individual material parameters such as reduced shear force resistance with regard to traction, the reduction of seismic reduction factors, conical excavation geometries, crack formationin the concrete matrix and finally the consideration of the normative partial safety factors, this special anchorage system could be classified as sufficiently load-bearing against seismic effects even in the context of tightness.
Sounds complicated, and it is, but then looks simple in the result!
