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- Load capacity on Racks with steel pipes as load carrier
Hi guys. Recently I've been assigned to know / calculate the capacity of the racks in our section. Our racks has layered steel pipes that are carrying the loads. After actual testing it can carry a load around 25 tons after yielding or having a bend. So my next step was to calculate for its yield stress so I can calculated an allowable stress and an allowable load with a factor of safety right after. However, after calculating it's stress in which I used force over area (A = 3 sq.m.) I calculated a stress which only results to a kilopascal value while I have searched yield stresses of some materias are mostly in megapascals(MPa) is there wrong with my calculations? If there is, can you help me. Thank you!