Hi canwesteng,
Unfortuantly I'm not replying to provide any answers or advice here, however I am facing a similar challenge regarding the support of a centrifuge on an elevated slab on steel within a building structure,
I am wondering did you manage to get a workable solution here and if so...
Hi Saplanti,
Thank you foryour reply. The foundation (supporting slab) will be designed to manage the settlement (both differential and total) so as to not adversley affect the piping/joints on the rack. It is the determination of the reactions that I am interested in based on the appropriate...
Hi All,
Please see below link to a thread I started in Seismology ENgineering forum,
I am hoping that the structural engineers well versed in Seismic Design in the General Structural Forum may have an opinion on the topic raised,
Thanks for your advice in advance,
Regards
Original Thread
Hi All,
We are designing a large internal ground-supported piperack structure for an industrial facility located within Europe in a seismically active region,
The piperack system carries mechanical piping and electrical cabling and is a sizeable structure,
There are 15No. piperacks located at...
@human909
Thanks - this does seem sensible to me and I had suggested in my reply to the designers that the frames be designed for a notional horizontal load to ensure their stability/robustness
As far as I can see, there are no hard and fast rules for quantifying the magnitude of this applied...
Firstly, thanks for the quick responses here guys
To elaborate and hopefully clarify some of the points raised;
The project is not located in a seismically active region, in fact, there is no requirement to assess the structure or applied elements for seismic actions in this country,
There are...
I am working on a large industrial building where there are some significant piperack/trestle structures suspended from the underside of roof level,
The building will be fully clad, so these are internal structures,
They are large structures made out of light unistrut framing, they support...
