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Effectiveness of a load-level isolation system (LLIS) for industrial steel storage racks: Experimental validation on a shake table
Sanhueza-Cartes, M
Almazán, J.L
Roco-Videla, Á
Elsevier
2025
This article presents the validation of a load-level isolation system designed for seismic protection and vibration control of industrial storage racks. This system exhibits the necessary versatility to protect the structure against different seismic intensities. The objective is to verify the effectiveness of the studied load-level isolation system in reducing the structural response and improving the seismic performance of the industrial racking, validating it with experimental tests. This was carried out on a shaking table with a total of 12 two-level rack tested at full scale, with 6 in conventional use conditions and 6 with the load-level isolation system. The 2010 earthquake in El Maule, Chile, was used as a forcing, scaled in the frequency domain to adjust its response spectrum with the design spectrum of NCh2369Of.2023. In the tests, the amount and distribution of the mass were varied, repeating the test for the design earthquake scaled to 10 %, 20 %, … 100 %. The results indicated that the implementation of the isolation system achieved a reduction of between 40 % and 81 % in floor deformations, and between 49 % and 63 % in the base shear, being able to resist up to at least 120 of the design earthquakes considered. The isolation system proved effective in protecting the structural integrity of the storage rack from low, medium, and high-intensity earthquakes.
Base shear
Drift
Earthquake simulation
Load distribution
Rack stability
Vibration control