Sets out a method for testing the effect of vertical impact on a complete, filled transport package, by dropping. Identical with and reproduced from ISO 2248:1985.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
1 Scope and field of application
2 References
3 Principle
4 Apparatus
4.1 Lifting arrangement, which will not damage the test package during either lifting or release.
4.2 Means of holding the test package prior to release in its predetermined attitude.2)
4.3 Release mechanism, to release the test package in such a way that its fall is not obstructed by any part of the apparatus before striking the impact surface (4.4).
4.4 Impact surface, horizontal and flat, massive enough to be immovable and rigid enough to be non-deformable under test conditions.
5 Package preparation
6 Conditioning
7 Procedure
7.1
7.2
8 Test report
Annex
A.1 Parallelepipedal packages
A.1.1 Impact on a face
A.1.2 Impact on an edge
A.1.3 Impact on a corner
A.2 Cylindrical packages of circular cross-section
A.2.1 Impact on top or bottom faces.
A.2.2 Impact at any of the points 1, 2, 3 etc., on either the edge or rim.
A.2.3 Impact on any of the lines 1-2, 3-4, etc., parallel to the axis of the cylinder.
