Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
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I would like to check the validity of the live load that is being used for design of the floor of a new municipal facility for dealing with residential waste. The residential garbage is brought into this facility and dumped on the floor and then pushed into bin below. The waste can be piled up to 18 feet high. The municipality has no data on the unit weight of the refuse. Anyone dealt with this? Anyone have a feel for what the unit density might be? (Please note that the municipality provided the wheel loads etc. for the humungus equipment that is used to move the garbage around within the facility, but that does not necessarily govern for all the structural elements).






RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
Density of garbage = (weight of fully loaded truck - weight of empty truck) / volume of truck
Garbage in = Garbage out!
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
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RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
To Mike20793 - thanks for the link. It does provide helpful information and leads me to believe we have been in the right ballpark in our work to-date.
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
You've brought up that point before about not wasting a client's money, which although I agree with, I think you place significantly too much emphasis on that. Structure performance should be priority number two right behind life safety. Economics cannot sacrifice either of the first two priorities.
RE: Floor Loading for Municipal Residential waste collection and disposal facility
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