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Engineering Design of a Parking Building for Bicycles
Oskar Ostertag1,
, Peter Janík1
1Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic
Abstract
In this paper we present the possibilities of unconventional bicycle parking in a built-up urban area. The unconventional parking solution is represented by a multi-storey parking house. In addition to the proposed construction design, the results of strength calculations of individual elements and nodes of the proposed parking house are presented in the article.
Keywords: parking building, bikes, stress, strain
Copyright © 2015 Science and Education Publishing. All Rights Reserved.Cite this article:
- Oskar Ostertag, Peter Janík. Engineering Design of a Parking Building for Bicycles. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering. Vol. 3, No. 6, 2015, pp 248-251. https://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/3/6/19
- Ostertag, Oskar, and Peter Janík. "Engineering Design of a Parking Building for Bicycles." American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 3.6 (2015): 248-251.
- Ostertag, O. , & Janík, P. (2015). Engineering Design of a Parking Building for Bicycles. American Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 3(6), 248-251.
- Ostertag, Oskar, and Peter Janík. "Engineering Design of a Parking Building for Bicycles." American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 3, no. 6 (2015): 248-251.
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1. Introduction
Urban, transport, safety and operational criteria of space design for short and long-term bicycle parking, starting and ending with high-capacity garages, form an integral part of the solution to the whole transport infrastructure of the area. The optimal operation of such facilities is subject to the actual development of cycling transport, building the cycling infrastructure, the disposition and the density of the network of cycle routes and their loading. Bicycle parking places demands on the urban area of the municipality. Proper realization of parking spaces for bicycles shall make the streets and squares clear and possible to drive through [1].
The subject of this paper is to highlight the issues related to bicycle parking. The state of covering the possibilities of parking and storing bicycles in public spaces is not sufficient for the needs of securing the property against theft. The created proposal has a capacity of 94 parking spaces for bicycles of different weights and dimensions. Parking space of such capacity belongs among the medium size ones. Parking is fully automated, without the access of people to the interior of the parking house, because of preventing the theft of bicycles. The automation of parking lies in the fact that the bicycle is placed in an entrance grow, where its weight is found out, a camera records its dimensions and within 20 seconds, an automatic lift will place it in a separate predetermined space. After the stated procedure, the owner of the bicycle gets a card with an electronic code of the stored bicycle. The card serves for the takeover of the bicycle. After the payment of the calculated financial charge and the return of the card, the takeover of the bicycle shall take place. This process is also fully automatic.
2. Engineering Design of the Parking House for Bicycles
The proposed parking house is 2.11 m high and covers an area of 8x8 m and offers space for 96 bicycles (Figure 1). The main load-bearing parts have been designed from the beams and bars of square profile with the dimensions of 200x200 mm, with a thickness of 10 mm. In addition to these blanks, bars of rectangular profile with the dimensions of 100x50 mm and with a thickness of 3.2 mm were also used. We used steel with the designation STN EN 17240. It is an austenitic stainless steel, which is the most used kind of stainless steel material with excellent corrosion resistance, cold formability and weldability. Its yield strength Re is 207 MPa.
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3. The Validation of the Design of the Parking House
The rack designed to store the bicycles, can, in terms of load and the structure, be considered to be symmetrical. The base consists of carrier beams of a rectangular profile with the dimensions of 100x50 mm and the thickness of 3.2 mm, on which grooves for the wheels of the bicycle are made. The grooves are 2000 mm long and 100 mm wide. The total weight of the rack is 49.74 kg and it is manufactured of the EN STN 17 420 steel. Figure 2 displays the stated design of the rack shape, Figure 3 shows the direct stress gradient calculated according to von Mises and Figure 4 the gradient of distortions identified by means of FEM.
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As part of the total load of the structure of the parking house we considered also the wind and snow (e.g. [2, 3]). Load values were determined for the corresponding region according to the relevant tables and standards. The solution reflected the sheath surface and the inclination of the roof of the parking house. In case of wind load we considered the mean wind speed, basic and peak wind pressure and turbulence.
The method of calculating wind load is specified in the European standard [3]. In case of dynamic effects of the load of the entire building or nay part of it by the wind, it is necessary to adapt all the constructional details to the nature of fatigue stress, so as to limit to the maximum the eventual concentration of stress peaks. The occurrence of concentrated high stress is a frequent source of faults which may occur even after several years of use of the building.
The characteristic mean wind speed 
in the altitude z above the ground level is given by the equation
 | (1) |
where 
is the coefficient affected by the surface of the terrain (if 
, then the wind speed is increased by not more than 5%) and 
is the basic wind speed.
Terrain roughness coefficient 
is given by the equation
 |
where 
is the length of the roughness shown in the table of the relevant standard [3],
is the minimum altitude given in the table of the standard [3] and 
is 200 m,
is the coefficient of the terrain
and 
= 0.05 m.
Peak wind pressure q (z) can be determined as
 | (2) |
where 
represents the basic wind pressure, 
is the air density (generally 
= 1.25 kg m−3) and 
is the impact of turbulence.
The turbulence of the wind 
is given by the equation
 | (3) |
where 
is the turbulence coefficient (generally equal to 1).
The direct, respectively, indirect wind pressure on the outer surface has a form of
 | (4) |
and on the internal surface has a form of
 | (5) |
where 
is the coefficient of the outer surface (depends on the dimensions of the area exposed to the impacts of the wind and, in particular, of the shape of the structure) and 
is the coefficient of internal pressure. These coefficients are determined according to the standard [3].
When determining the snow load of a construction, it is necessary to consider the various options of pressure distribution which is dependent e.g. on the shape of the roof, thermal characteristics of the roof, the roughness of the surface, the distance to the surrounding buildings, etc.
Snow load on roofs shall be determined as follows:
• for temporary design situations, as is the unlikely occurrence of extraordinary snowfall, unlikely occurrence of snow drifts
 | (6) |
• for exceptional design situations, as is the incidence of extraordinary snowfall without exceptional snowdrifts
 | (7) |
• for exceptional design situations, as is the incidence of extraordinary snowfall with the occurrence of exceptional snowdrifts
 | (8) |
where 
is shape coefficient of the snow load, 
is the characteristic value of snow load on the ground, 
is the proposal value of exceptional load on the ground for the given area, 
is the coefficient of exposition, 
is the temperature coefficient.
The 
temperature coefficient is used to reduce the snow load on the roofs, which involve the melting of snow through high heat transfer. If the heat transfer is greater than 1.0 W/m2 K, then 
, in other cases 
.
Figure 5 and Figure 6 present the structure deformation of the parking house for two cases of wind load.
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Figure 7 and Figure 8 display the cases the snow load of the roof caused without and with snowdrifts.
The dynamic response of the construction has been assessed on the basis of the identified natural (eigen) frequencies and the frequencies of the excitation forces. Using the resulting eigenfrequencies, the hazardous operating condition of the construction can be determined (e.g. [4, 5]).
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In case that the eigenfrequencies comply with the frequencies of the excitation forces, a resonance of the system occurs and that may result in reduced service life, increased noise and damage to structures. Due to the resulting eigenmodes of the vibrations of the excited investigated system, it is possible to determine the points of maximum deformation. Accordingly, it is possible to make structural modifications to eliminate dangerous oscillations. Figure 9 - Figure 13 display the first 5 eigenmodes of the parking house model. The actual calculation of modal parameters by the finite element method is not sufficient to be able to proclaim that the obtained modal parameters are identical to the actual ones. Therefore, it is often necessary to compare the obtained results with the results of experimental modal analysis. This comparison is performed to get more accurate results and eventually modify the calculation model used for further solution (e.g. [6, 7, 8, 9]).
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4. Conclusion
Via our paper we wanted to highlight the possibility of solving the problem of lack of parking spaces for bicycles. The correct realization of parking spaces for bicycles helps to achieve the clearness and driveability of the streets and squares. Bicycle racks do not address this problem. They often present an obstacle on the streets and squares. The cost of installing a single rack with a capacity of 10 bicycles in Slovakia lies in the range from 200 to 2500 euros.
The calculations presented showed the relevant possibility of the realization of the project of a parking house. Stresses in construction elements, as well as their deformation, have shown very little values when compared with the permissible stress, respectively, the required rigidity. In view of these results, it is possible to subject the construction even to significantly higher loads. This design proposal highlights the high safety level of the realized construction.
Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the VEGA No. 1/0937/12 and VEGA 1/0393/14 grant projects.
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