The Effect of Forklift Type, Pallet Design, Entry Speed, and Top Load on the Horizontal Shock Impacts Exerted during the Interactions between Pallet and Forklift

Forklift handling of palletized loads produces shock impacts that cause significant damage, affecting the durability and life cycle pallets unit loads. Laboratory testing processes using an incline impact tester have been developed to assess resistance damage. A key element pallet test is intensity impact. However, there a lack information on during forklift handling. The objective this research was investigate effects type, design, entry speed, top load horizontal responses measured interactions between forklifts. Two data loggers, SAVER 3X90 3D15, were used measure experienced same event both forklift. results showed average peak acceleration 2.98 G; resulted in 4.4 times greater pallet. duration these 10–12 ms. Pallet design speed had greatest effect response for forklift, while most heavily influenced by type. paper mainly focused measuring severity did not attempt correlate damage