Design Verification Testing*

Type B packagings for transporting radioactive materials are required to survive exposures to environments in accordance with provisions of Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations Part 71. Testing, analyses, or a combination of testing and analysis may be used to demonstrate compliance with the normal and hypothetical accident conditions. This paper will discuss drop and puncture design verification testing. The extensive scale model design verification testing program (Madsen et al., 1987) conducted by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to evaluate the structural response of the Defense High Level Waste (DHLW) truck transportation cask (GA Technologies, 1987) will be used as an example. General aspects of design of the scale model, drop orientations, instrumentation, photography, nondestructive evaluations (NDE), data evaluations, test plans, and quality assurance can be applied to other design verification programs.