In an attempt to understand the dynamics of extra severe transportation accidents and to evaluate state-of-the-art computational techniques for predicting the dynamic response of shipping casks involved in vehicular system crashes, the Environmental Control Technology Division of ERDA undertook a program with Sandia to investigate these areas. This program, which began in 1975, encompasses the following distinct major efforts. The first of these utilizes computational methods for predicting the effects of the accident environment and, subsequently, to calculate the damage incurred by a container as the result of such an accident. The second phase involves the testing of exp 1 / sub 8 -scale models of transportation systems. Through the use of instrumentation and high-speed motion photography, the accident environments and physical damage mechanisms are studied in detail. After correlating the results of these first two phases, a full scale event involving representative hardware is conducted. To date two of the three selected test scenarios have been completed. Results of the program to this point indicate that both computational techniques and scale modeling are viable engineering approaches to studying accident environments and physical damage to shipping casks. (ERA citation 03:029044)


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    Title :

    Crash Testing of Nuclear Fuel Shipping Containers


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    Publication date :

    1977


    Size :

    50 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Crash Testing of Nuclear Fuel Shipping Containers

    R. M. Jefferson / H. R. Yoshimura | NTIS | 1977



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