Explosive Substances of Chemical Industries

Test methods, part 1

1. Test methods according to the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria
   
   Test methods according to the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Manual of Tests and Criteria, Fourth Revised Edition 2003, United Nations Publication,New York and Geneva 2003, ISBN 92-1-139087-7, Sales No. E.03.VIII.2. Publication date: 13 January 2004

• Test A.1 BAM 50/60 steel tube test (cavitated and not cavitated version, with 50 g booster and detonator 0,6 g PETN, respectively)

Test A.1 (cavitated version), complete fragmentation of the tube (enlarged picture)

• Test C.1 Time/pressure test
• Test C.2 Deflagration test
• Test E.1 Koenen test (heating under defined confinement)

Test E.1 Fragmentation type F of an explosive substance (enlarged picture)

• Test E.2 Dutch pressure vessel test
• Test F.3 BAM Trauzl test
• Test H.4 BAM heat accumulation storage test to determine the SADT (Self accelerating decomposition temperature) with Dewar vessels of 0,5 l, 1 l and 3 l volume
• Test to determine the tendency of a substance to undergo transition from deflagration to detonation, French DDT (Deflagration to detonation transition)-test
• Tests of substances in packagings according to the UN test methods, Part II
• 10-l-vessel for venting test for portable tanks and IBCs (appendix 5)

10-l-vessel for venting test for organic peroxides (enlarged picture)

• Test series 1, 2 and 6 of class 1
• Test S.1 trough-test for the determination of the self-sustaining exothermic decomposition of fertilizers containing nitrates

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