Cyclic performance of steel storage rack beam-to-upright bolted connections

Steel storage pallet racks are slender structures sensitive to the second-order effects. Therefore, the stability and seismic response of unbraced pallet racks are greatly influenced by the behaviour of the connections between pallet beams and uprights. In recent applications, a bolt has been installed in the otherwise boltless connections broadly used in pallet racks, in order to improve the behaviour of the connections and the stability of the...