
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Progressive collapse prevention of drive-in steel storage racks
Siddharth Yadwad & Lip H. Teh
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
ABSTRACT: Unlikeresidentialand commercial buildings,a moreeffectiveandrational approach to preventing
progressive collapse in storage racks is to sacrifice the bay where a local failure initiates. The cost of a confined
collapse of one bay is insignificant compared to the cost of a progressive collapse. This paper investigates the use
of fuse connectors