Determination of the flexural behavior of steel storage rack baseplate upright connections with eccentric anchor bolts

The baseplate upright connections of the steel storage racks are often attached to the concrete floor by anchor bolts possibly at an eccentric location. Currently available rack design specifications do not provide any guidelines to take account of the influence of eccentric anchor bolt location and do not consider the associated baseplate behavior in the design of such storage rack base connections. The first part of this paper experimentally …