We're trying to solve a tube / solid bar storage problem. We would like to have a grid rack designed & analyzed such that we can minimize the material size & wall the rack is built from based upon our load specifications per cell.

Similiar to this, but not such a little girl of a rack:

http://www.chdist.com/images/products/73-156A_BK.jpg

The racks we are building are 50 feet wide, 10 foot tall and 10 foot deep and needs to store at a minimum of 1250-1500 different materials per rack. We've built a dedicated warehouse just for this storage purpose.

If you are up the challenge shoot me an email: admin@mandrel-bends.com

-Adam

 

Did you get this figured out?

 

Actually no luck on this, and the normal engineer we use is in ireland for 2 months.

 

Check your email.

 

check your email. Two quick questions though...

What kind of worst case loading scenario will each shelf see? (lbs?)

Is welding going to be a problem for you?

 

pm me if your interested in me helping you out. Use solidworks on a daily basis and would be willing to give you a solution if your interested.

 

As a civil engineer (water systems not structural) i would suggest to look at racks with similar capacity rating not necessarily the same size and use them as a model for your rack, no need to reinvent the wheel.

I don't think this kind of a thing needs to be structurally evaluated but if you are worried about liability if it break and things of that nature i would at least draw up what you feel the unit should look like before turning an engineer loose on the design of it.

just my .02.

Levi