Warehouse floor loading
Warehouse floor loading
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Hi All.
I'm in a Canadian military warehouse. The floor, support columns and roof seem to be one piece. The floor is 8 inches thick (at least in the place we drilled)
The building was built in 1951. I have most of the drawings but not the foundation ones.
How can I find out if there is re-bar in the floor?
What is a reasonable dead load I can put on the floor? I've been looking at pallet racking which puts 12,000 pounds on 4 small pads totaling 0.38 square feet. That works out to a 30,000 pound per square foot load which seems high yet I see it in every warehouse I go into.
Is compressive strength a good figure to base dead load estimates on? Shear?
Thanks in advance.
I'm in a Canadian military warehouse. The floor, support columns and roof seem to be one piece. The floor is 8 inches thick (at least in the place we drilled)
The building was built in 1951. I have most of the drawings but not the foundation ones.
How can I find out if there is re-bar in the floor?
What is a reasonable dead load I can put on the floor? I've been looking at pallet racking which puts 12,000 pounds on 4 small pads totaling 0.38 square feet. That works out to a 30,000 pound per square foot load which seems high yet I see it in every warehouse I go into.
Is compressive strength a good figure to base dead load estimates on? Shear?
Thanks in advance.





RE: Warehouse floor loading
Dik
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With this they will give you a chart from which you can determine the spacing of the bars and the cover depth, but you only get a rough idea of bar size.
This will only be for a small sample though.
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Magnetic location devices (R-meter, pachometer, FerroScan) are all legitimate methods of rebar location. Ground penetrating radar can be used, but in my experience is not as accurate due to interpretation errors.