ABSTRACT
However, due to the uncertainty concerning the friction between the pallet bases and the rail beams, drive-in racks are currently designed without considering the bracing effects.
The current paper evaluates the influence of the horizontal bracing effect of pallets on the bending moment distribution of the upright in the down-aisle direction only, as due to the upright frames, pallets are not believed to influence the behaviour of drive-in racks in the cross-aisle direction.
