The Division of Transport Container Safety offers several topics for a thesis or project work.

BAM is a senior scientific and technical federal institute with responsibility to the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action. It tests, researches, and advises to protect people, the environment and material goods. The Transport Container Safety division is concerned with research, testing and assessment of transport containers for radioactive materials. This includes mechanical and thermal safety verifications and the development of experimental and computational test methods for the analysis of transport containers. As part of the experimental work, we perform a variety of load tests at our BAM Test Site for Technical Safety (TTS) close to Berlin.

We offer

  • Excellently equipped workplace with powerful workstation
  • Various simulation tools for the investigation of mechanical and thermal problems
  • Outstandingly equipped laboratories with measurement technology for thermal and mechanical investigations
  • Exceptional experimental work at our BAM Test Site for Technical Safety (TTS)
  • Familiarization with new topics and expansion of skills already acquired during studies
  • Insight into the practical field of transport safety

Possible topics for a thesis or project work

  • Experimental and numerical investigations of a heated steel disk for modeling of fire tests
  • Experimental and numerical investigations of prestressed bolted joints under load
  • Fire testing of containers with sheet metal encapsulated wood structures
  • Experimental and numerical investigations of sheet metal encapsulated wood structures under dynamic loading

Further application-related research topics can be developed in the field of safety of transport containers.

Test facilities on the test site

Top left: Drop test facility on the TTS; top right: Fire test; bottom: FEM stress analysis

Source: BAM, Division Safety of Transport Containers

Qualifications

  • Student in a STEM subject
  • Experience in the fields of classical mechanics, thermic or the application of simulation software in the aforementioned fields is an advantage
  • Willingness to familiarize with further programs, e.g. simulation software, measurement
  • Interest in applied research

Contact

Dr. Tobias Gleim
Division Safety of Transport Containers
phone: 030 8104-3168
E-Mail: Tobias.Gleim@bam.de

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