An overview of the results and metallurgical analyses o f the findings of impact tests conducted at the National Bureau of Standards on samples of tank-car matertals subhi'tted by the Federal Railroad Adminl'stration i s presented. The submitted samples were taken from tank cars which had been involved in service accidents durtng the period January 1970 to January 1971,One of these tank cars had been fabricated from ASTM A212 steel and the remaining four tank
cars from AAR TC128 steels. tank-car accident reports.The impact test data were reported earlier in four earlier tank-car accident reports.
Accidents that lead to rupture of tank cars carryinghazardous materials can cause serious public safety hazards andsubstantial economic losses. The de...
Full scale tests were performed to investigate variousaspects of tank car behavior during coupler impacts. A tank carwas equipped with 37 acceleromete...
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