TY - CONF A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias T1 - Impact Analysis of RAM Packages under Kinematic Aspects T2 - Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials N2 - BAM is the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing and the competent authority for mechanical and thermal safety assessment of transport packages for spent fuel and high level waste. In context with safety assessment of RAM packages BAM performed numerous drop tests in the last decades. The tests were mostly accompanied by extensive and various measurement techniques especially by instrumented measurements with strain gages and accelerometers. The procedure of drop testing and the resulting measurement analysis are the main methods to evaluate the safety against mechanical test conditions. Measurement techniques are dedicated to answer questions in regard to the structural integrity of a RAM package, the mechanical behavior of the prototype as well as of its content under impact conditions. Test results like deceleration-time functions constitute a main basis for the validation of assumptions in the safety analysis and for the evaluation of numerical calculations. In this context the adequate selection of accelerometers and measurement systems for the performance of drop tests is important. Therefore it is not only necessary to find suitable positions for the accelerometers at the test specimens, but also to consider technical boundary conditions as e.g. temperature. T2 - PATRAM 2016 CY - Kobe, Japan DA - 18.09.2016 KW - RAM packages KW - Drop test KW - Impact KW - Radioactive PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38859 AN - OPUS4-38859 UR - http://www.patram2016.org/ SP - Paper 1030, 1 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany