Comparison of experimental results from drop testing of spent fuel package design using full scale prototype model and reduced scale model

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between full scale prototype and reduced scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics. Together with a current BAM research project, the paper contributes to the further development of mechanical evaluation methods for safety assessment of RAM transport and storage packages including the transferability of package impact response from reduced scale models to full scale packages.

Keywords:

• FULL SCALE
• REDUCED SCALE
• DROP TESTING
• SIMILARITY