- Author
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Souer, H. J.
- Title
- Maritime Transportation of Containerized Cargo. Part 3. Fire Tests in Closed Containers.
- Coporate
- Nederlands Scheepsstudiecentrum TNO, Delft
- Report
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Report 177-M
April 1973
16 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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transportation
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fire tests
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containers
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leakage
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experiments
- Abstract
- In order to get an idea of the behavior of a container in case its cargo catches fire (regardless of the cause) and of the possible risk for adjacent containers, and, implicitly, the hazards for the crew in the event of maritime transportation, appropriately designed experiments have been carried out. The experimental work was comparative in that fire tests in two arbitrarily chosen containers of different constructions (plywood and steel) were done. The quantity of extra air leaking into each container was determined in order to establish a relation between the growth and the ultimate size of a fire and the container leakage. Results indicate that the risk for ship and remaining cargo when the cargo of one container catches fire is rather limited and even considerably lower than the fire risk on board conventional dry-cargo ships.