TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Droste, Bernhard T1 - Measurement techniques and preliminary results of drop tests with full scale spent fuel transport and storage casks KW - Drop testing KW - Full scale spent fuel cask KW - Deceleration KW - Strain PY - 2006 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 191 EP - 195 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-14431 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR 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' N2 - BAM, as a competent German government institute for the mechanical and thermal testing of radioactive material transport and storage containers, operates unique drop and fire test facilities for experimental investigations on the open air BAM Test Site Technical Safety. To be able to perform even drop tests with full scale spent fuel or HAW casks (i.e. the German CASTOR cask designs), BAM constructed in 2004 a large drop test facility capable to handle 200 ton test objects, and to drop them onto a steel plate covered unyielding target with a mass of nearly 2600 ton. Drop test campaigns of the 181 ton GNS CONSTOR V/TC, the 129 ton MHI MSF-69BG and a 1:2 scale model of the GNS CASTOR HAW28M (CASTOR HAW/TB2) have been performed since then. The experimental BAM drop testing activities can be supported also by drop testing of smaller packages (up to 2 ton) in an in-house test facility and by dynamic, guided impact testing of package components and material specimen inside a new drop test machine. In May 2008, a new modern fire test facility was put into operation. The facility provides two test stands fired with liquid propane. Testing in every case has to be completed by computational investigations, where BAM operates appropriate finite element modelling on appropriate computer codes, e.g. ABAQUS, LS-DYNA, ANSYS and other analytical tools. KW - Package testing KW - Drop testing KW - Fire testing KW - Regulations PY - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1179/1746510912Y.0000000002 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 22 IS - 4 SP - 200 EP - 205 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-26691 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Schubert, Sven T1 - Comparison of experimental results from drop testing of spent fuel package design using full scale prototype model and reduced scale model N2 - This paper presents a comparison between full scale prototype and reduced scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics. Together with a current BAM research project, the paper contributes to the further development of mechanical evaluation methods for safety assessment of RAM transport and storage packages including the transferability of package impact response from reduced scale models to full scale packages. KW - Full scale KW - Reduced scale KW - Drop testing KW - Similarity PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1179/174651008X362575 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 197 EP - 202 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-20135 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Musolff, André A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Neumann, Martin A1 - Kadji, Arsène Brice A1 - Droste, Bernhard T1 - Results of full scale CONSTOR® V/TC prototype 9 m horizontal drop test KW - Drop testing KW - Impact limiter KW - Finite element method KW - Full scale cast PY - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1179/174651008X382951 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 228 EP - 232 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-18625 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Droste, Bernhard A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Minack, Mathias T1 - New BAM 200 ton drop test facility - construction and operation experiences KW - Drop testing KW - Full scale spent fuel casks KW - Unyielding target KW - Impact limiter KW - Safety margin PY - 2006 SN - 1746-5095 SN - 1746-5109 SN - 0957-476X VL - 17 IS - 3 SP - 131 EP - 135 PB - Ramtrans Publ. CY - Ashford AN - OPUS4-13709 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -