TY - CONF A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Droste, Bernhard A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter T1 - Experimental testing of impact limiters for RAM packages under drop test conditions N2 - In context with new cask designs and their approval procedure, the experimental testing of impact limiters under drop test conditions becomes more and more important in order to assess the damage mechanics behaviour and safety margins for validation reasons. In recent years, various designs of impact limiters have been tested by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing within specific component testing and particularly with regard to type B package design approval procedures. The paper focuses on the experimental realisation of impact limiter tests and presents implemented measurement techniques to determine the amount of deformation and to explain the impact behaviour by means of photogrammetric metrology and three-dimensional fringe projection method, high speed motion analysis and adjusted deceleration measurements. T2 - PATRAM 2013 - 17th International symposium on the packaging and transportation of radioactive materials CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 18.08.2013 KW - Drop test KW - Impact limiters KW - RAM packages KW - Measurement methods PY - 2013 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Omnipress AN - OPUS4-31040 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Droste, Bernhard A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter T1 - Experimental investigation of RAM packages impact limiters - 14256 N2 - In context with new cask designs and their approval procedure the experimental testing of impact limiters under drop test conditions becomes more and more important in order to assess the damage mechanics behavior and safety margins for validation reasons. In recent years various designs of impact limiters have been tested by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) within specific component testing and particularly with regard to type B package design approval procedures. The paper focuses on the experimental realization of impact limiter tests and presents implemented measurement techniques to determine the amount of deformation and to explain the impact behavior by means of photogrammetric metrology and 3-d fringe projection method, high-speed motion analysis and adjusted deceleration measurements. T2 - WM2014 Conference CY - Phoenix, Arizona, USA DA - 02.03.2014 KW - Drop test KW - Impact limiters KW - RAM packages KW - Measurement methods PY - 2014 SN - 978-0-9836186-3-8 SP - Paper 14256, 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-31050 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Musolff, Andre A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias T1 - Kinematic aspects of RAM packages drop tests 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 - 2018 WM Symposia CY - Phoenix, AZ, USA DA - 18.03.2018 KW - Drop KW - Test KW - Measurement KW - Analysis KW - Prototyp PY - 2018 SP - Paper 18149, 1 EP - 12 AN - OPUS4-44872 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Droste, Bernhard T1 - Quality assurance requirements for mechanical test campaigns of packagings N2 - A management system based on international, national or other standards acceptable to the competent authority shall be established and implemented for all activities including design, manufacture, testing, documentation, use, maintenance, inspection in accordance with IAEA SSR-6. Hereby, quality assured testing and documentation can substantially contribute to the demonstration of package design compliance with the regulations. Nowadays, a drop test campaign within the approval process of packages for radioactive materials can be a very complex and extensive project including various test and measurement techniques. On this basis of procedures and documents the experimental tests of packages and containers are performed with quality proofed results and a high reliability. A complete traceability and direct transferability of package design test results can give particular importance to the type approval procedure. T2 - PATRAM 2013 - 17th International symposium on the packaging and transportation of radioactive materials CY - San Francisco, CA, USA DA - 18.08.2013 KW - Quality assurance KW - Packaging KW - Drop test PY - 2013 SP - Paper 181, 1 EP - 7 PB - Omnipress AN - OPUS4-30493 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias T1 - Impact Analysis of RAM Packages under Kinematic Aspects 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 - http://www.patram2016.org/ SP - Paper 1030, 1 AN - OPUS4-38859 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - GEN A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Musolff, Andre A1 - Nakagami, M. A1 - Komatsuki, S. A1 - Tamaki, H. A1 - Kishimoto, J. A1 - Fujisawa, K. A1 - Nishio, T. ED - Quercetti, Thomas T1 - Experimental testing of RAM packages within Japanese German projects N2 - In context with Japanese disposal and transport container safety assessment the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) per-formed extensive drop test series with prototypes of RAM packages in recent years. The paper presents two cooperative projects focused on project management, testing performance and experimental results. In the first project, a full-scale prototype of a package for transport and storage of spent fuel elements with a total mass of 127,000 kg and its reduced-scale model which was similar to the prototype in both geometry and design were drop tested in 9 m and 1 m puncture tests at various drop orientations under regulatory conditions. In context with a corresponding research project the test data was used in combination with numerical methods to investigate the phenomenon of internal cask- content collisions during drop tests. Here, technological gaps between basket or radioactive content and cask body or primary lid can be a reason for significant high dynamic loadings of cask components and its internals due to additional impact interactions in the cask cavity caused by inner relative movement between content and cask. Further investigations were carried out in the field of similarity mechanics comparing experimental drop test data of the full-scale prototype and reduced-scale model in regard to the transferability of package impact response from reduced-scale models to full-scale packages. In the second project, drop tests with a waste container for intermediate depth disposal were per-formed being contracted by Kobe Steel, Ltd. and a consortium of Japanese electric power plant com-panies. The drop test program comprised three single 8-m drop tests in a specimen’s corner edge orientation. For drop tests according to legal regulations for interim storage or final disposal it is often necessary to use a target which represents the real ground of the storage facility. In such cases the container hits directly onto a well-defined concrete slab on top of the IAEA target. Here, the directly impact target for the drop tests were concrete slabs manufactured in Japan and connected by mortar to the impact pad of the unyielding IAEA target. KW - Drop testing KW - Package PY - 2016 SP - Paper 1043, 1 EP - 13 CY - Kobe, Japan AN - OPUS4-37557 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Droste, Bernhard A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter T1 - Experimental testing of impact limiters for RAM packages under drop test conditions N2 - In context with new cask designs and their approval procedure, the experimental testing of impact limiters under drop test conditions becomes more and more important in order to assess the damage mechanics behaviour and safety margins for validation reasons. In recent years, various designs of impact limiters have been tested by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing within specific component testing and particularly with regard to type B package design approval procedures. The paper focuses on the experimental realisation of impact limiter tests and presents implemented measurement techniques to determine the amount of deformation and to explain the impact behaviour by means of photogrammetric metrology and three-dimensional fringe projection method, high speed motion analysis and adjusted deceleration measurements. KW - Experimental KW - Drop test KW - Impact limiter KW - Close range photogrammetry PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1179/1746510915Y.0000000003 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 25 IS - 3-4 SP - 133 EP - 138 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-33776 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Musolff, André T1 - Characterisation of shock absorber deformation by optical surface digitisation N2 - The performance of shock absorbers has been tested in specific regulatory drop tests onto an unyielding target at the BAM drop test facility. Optical surface digitisation methods have been used to measure, analyse and evaluate permanent deformations of shock absorbers more systematically. The measurement principle of the used fringe projection technique and its technical application to shock absorber investigations is explained in detail. Furthermore, examples of shock absorber testing results as well as final data visualisation are given in the present paper. KW - Approval assessment of packages KW - Shock absorber KW - Drop test KW - Optical deformation measurement KW - Fringe projection KW - Three-dimensional surface digitisation KW - Optische Digitalisierung KW - Streifenprojektion KW - Fotogrammetrie KW - 3D-Verformung KW - Behälterzulassung PY - 2008 DO - https://doi.org/10.1179/174651008X362566 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 155 EP - 159 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-18562 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gründer, Klaus-Peter A1 - Kadoke, Daniel A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Musolff, André T1 - Characterization of shock absorber deformation by optical surface digitization N2 - The performance of shock absorbers has been tested in specific regulatory drop tests onto an un-yielding target at the BAM drop test facility. Optical surface digitization methods have been used to measure, analyze and evaluate permanent deformations of shock absorbers more systemati-cally. The measurement principle of the fringe projection technique used and its technical appli-cation to shock absorber research is explained in detail in this paper. Furthermore, examples of shock absorber testing results as well as final data visualization are presented. T2 - PATRAM 2007, 15th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials CY - Miami, Florida, USA DA - 2007-10-21 KW - 3D Verformung KW - Optische Digitalisierung KW - Behälterzulassung KW - Streifenprojektion KW - Fotogrammetrie PY - 2007 IS - Paper 84 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Institute of Nuclear Materials Management AN - OPUS4-18692 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Droste, Bernhard A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Quercetti, Thomas T1 - Drop and fire testing of spent fuel and HLW transport casks at "BAM test site technical safety" - 10079 T2 - WM2010 - 36th Annual radioactive waste management symposium CY - Phoenix, Arizona, USA DA - 2010-03-07 KW - transport packages of radioactive materials KW - Safety KW - Mechanical tests KW - Thermal tests KW - Drop test facility KW - Fire test facilities KW - Numerical calculations PY - 2010 SN - 978-0-9828171-0-0 SP - 1 EP - 11 CY - Tempe, AZ, USA AN - OPUS4-21830 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -