Target hardness comparison to IAEA unyielding target

Conference · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5825242

Gonzales, A; Pierce, J D; Stenberg, D R

Sandia National Laboratories is conducting an ongoing evaluation relating impact target hardness to the IAEA unyielding target. The Target Hardness program includes experimental testing and analytical calculations to compare effects of various targets on a simple model transportation cask. This project will include experiments to compare impacts with more realistic yielding targets. Two types of materials were chosen to represent yielding targets; soil and concrete. Cask responses at impact velocities of 13 m/s, 20 m/s, 27 m/s (44 ft/s, 66 ft/s, 88 ft/s) onto yielding targets were examined against the 9 meter drop velocity of 13 m/s (44 ft/s) onto an unyielding target.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Southwest Engineering Associates, El Paso, TX (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5825242
• Report Number(s): SAND-86-0052C; CONF-860604-5; TTC-645; ON: DE86005629
• Resource Relation: Conference: International symposium on the packaging and transport of radioactive materials (PATRAM '86), Davos, Switzerland, 16 Jun 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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