• Many years of experience, precision, expertise and impartiality in performing safety evaluation and design approval of various transport container types and related quality management systems
• Expert consulting for the public sector, industry, federal and state institutions in matters relating to transport container safety
• Operation of custom-developed testing facilities for drop and fire tests
• Know-how and experience in complex numerical component stress test analyses

• Testing and evaluation of container integrity and sealing system function under operating conditions as well as effects of hypothetical severe accidents
• Research on safety-related scientific methods for experimental and analytical container stress tests and on safety margins

Test facilities at the BAM Test Site for Technical Safety

• Drop test facility with detaching device for max. 200 t and max. drop height up to 30 m on unyielding 2.600 t foundation, attached assembly hall with 80 t overhead crane
• Test facility for guided drop tests up to 1,000 kg and a max. drop height of 12 m. Drop weight interception system to prevent a secondary impact

• Fire test facility with propane as fuel with a mean heat flux of 110 kW/m² for test objects with a max. mass of 200 t
  

  Temperature-controlled testing and assembly hall with a total area of about 850 m² and a 50 t overhead crane

Test and measurement technologies

• Measuring equipment for experimental stress and strain plus acceleration analyses for high-dynamic stressed test objects
• Application-specific leakage testing according to the state of the art
• High-speed camera systems for recording and analysis of high dynamic processes
• Optical 3D measuring methods for measuring and analysing shape changes and comparisons with CAD data
• Hard and software (ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA) for stress analyses using the finite element method
  

In the database PUBLICA you will find publications by BAM employees.

Publications of the division Safety of Transport Containers in PUBLICA

PUBLICA