Equipment and facilities
Tests carried out at this facility are aimed at meeting BAM's statutory obligations mainly in the fields of dangerous materials law, dangerous goods law and explosive law.
From left to right, 1. row: building components, men at work at the construction site, 2. row: fireworks, drop test facility, model building, 3. row: new fire test rig, 4. row: observation bunker, explosion ground (enlarged picture)
The explosion test ground has a diameter of 400 m. Tests of up to 150 kg of TNT equivalent can be carried out.
Videos
Testing for safety
BAM Video no 56, 2002, 17:22 min, FLV, 125,5 MB
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CASTOR-Cask beside an exploding propan rail tank car
BAM Video no 49, 1999, 7:30 min, FLV, 49 MB
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Tank waggon tested in fire
BAM Video no 47, 1999, 16:39 min, FLV, 120 MB
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Postal address:
BAM Federal Institute for
Materials Research
and Testing
Unter den Eichen 87
12205 Berlin
phone:
+49 30 8104-0
fax:
+49 30 8112029
email:
info@bam.de
Visitors address:
BAM Test Site
Technical Safety
Horstwalde
An der Düne
15837 Baruth/Mark