Experimental assessment of static friction between pallet and beams in racking systems

• Large economic importance of racking system warehouses.
• Need of a specific code for Seismic design of steel racks systems with pallets.
• Experimental assessment of the friction behavior of pallet-rack systems.
• Experimental study of parameters influencing static friction of pallet-rack systems.

In order to investigate the sliding behavior of pallets stored on steel racking systems, a large number of sliding tests under both static and dynamic conditions were performed within the EU-RFCS Research Project “SEISRACKS: Storage Racks in Seismic Areas”. In this paper, the results obtained for the assessment of the Static Friction Factor between pallet and beams are described and commented upon.