The U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center and School (USADACS), Validation Engineering Division (SMCAC-DEV), received comments from the Association of American Railroads/Bureau of Explosives (AAR/BOE) concerning typical anchor devices in steel boxcar sidewalls. Typical anchor devices will accommodate up to 1 1/4-inch steel banding. Using the bulkhead gate method of partial-layer procedures using 1 1/4-inch bulkhead straps. Rail impact tests revealed a single layer, four pallet test load requires three 1 1/4-inch steel straps positioned across the face of the bulkhead for longitudinal restraint. Total weight of the four pallet test load is 6,890 pounds.
Evaluation of the Railroad Boxcar Lading Strap Anchors Adaptable to 1 1/4-Inch Steel Banding
1989
38 pages
Report
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English
Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Ammunition, Explosives, & Pyrotechnics , Railroad Transportation , Ammunition , Anchors , Army , Bulkheads , Defense systems , Explosives , Gates(Circuits) , Impact tests , Layers , Pallets , Rails , Restraint , Straps , Test and evaluation , Railroad cars , Loading strap anchors , Logistics , Boxcars , Steel banding , Army equipment