Mobile Home Research. Transportation and Site-Installation. Development of an Analytical Methodology and Transportation Field Test Method. Volume 6: Final Report

摘要

This report provides a basis for determining the adequacy of the Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards, effective June 15, 1976. The Southwest Research Institute's study offers an innovative approach to assess mobile home structural durability or degradation, and its findings should offer a base upon which to develop proposed standards. This volume contains a proposed field test method that could be used to measure the stiffness parameters of new or used mobile homes. These parameters are required to verify adherence to the proposed standard and to perform calculations necessary to predict the remaining useful life of a mobile home. The volume includes a simplified torsion test analysis methodology and test calculations, recommended apparent torsional stiffness of zero - mileage mobile homes, torsion and vertical banding tests, a description of the development of a proposed test plan to create a transportation field test method, and implementation of a validation program to develop the transportation field test method. The recommended field test procedure consists of the torsion test and vertical bending test for many mobile home units. Tables and graphs are included. (Author abstract modified).