Abstract
AbstractAbstract—A new model of Type A box container is presented which can also be used as industrial package Type 2 (IP-2) and Type 3 (IP-3) for the transport of solid radioactive wastes and other hazardous materials, which CORROBESCH/STM recently developed and tested. One of the principal goals in the development of these new containers has been to address and remedy an issue that until now has received only secondary attention in the transport industry, namely the dynamic forces that can arise while hauling the cargo. In response to this shortcoming, the Federal Republic of Germany has newly issued an emergency regulation decreeing that such accidental forces must be taken into account. On the other hand, a number of domestic ordinances and international codes of regulation also contain prescriptions for dynamic forces, which vary from code to code. This new CORROBESCH/STM box container system implements a set of special shock-absorbing elasto-plastic trays with selftensioning straps, which can withst...
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