27 Oct
1999
27 Oct
'99
8:32 a.m.
I live in a 29 story building. I have 2000 pounds of
racks with CPUs in my
"lab" (a room 20' X 20'). I am going to move in another 2-3 thousand
pounds
of minis as I am going through my storage and moving them up here. I am also
picking up more minis from a plant in the US. I am placing the mini racks
along the walls in the hope that there is more support there. A real serious
question I have is... Can a room in a building like this support 5000 pounds
or more? If someone here has experience with this please tell me if this is
okay.
Well, I don't know exact numbers for the USA, but here a floor has
to handle at least 150 kg/m^2 (~40 lbs/sqft) for basic residential
housing (DIN 1045) as standard usage, and must not show any stress
when loaded with 1.75 times the weight. This is defined for the
whole area. For Industrial Buildings standard is set to 1000 kg/m^2
(~200 lbs/sqft) or higher, depending on the designated use. These
are numbers by law.
Since I assume a 29 story building had concrete floors, a usable
weight for this class of building inside a 20'x20' room should
include more than 15,000 lbs without any problem.
Gruss
H.
Any (US) architect out there ?
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Der Kopf ist auch nur ein Auswuchs wie der kleine Zeh.
H.Achternbusch