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Hazardous Materials Transportation

These Hazmat Transportation reports are listed by their corresponding report numbers starting with the most recent published document. Click on the "Report Number" for a pdf copy of the report, if available. Additionally, all these reports are also available to the U.S. public through the National Technical Information Service in Springfield VA.

REPORT NUMBER TITLE
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/29 Development and Application of Methodology for Reliability Assessment of Tank Car Structures: Phase I
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/25 Stub Sill Railroad Tank Car Research Project: Full-Scale Damage Tolerance Test
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/23 In-Service, Over-the-Road Testing of One Car for Tank Car Operating Environment Study (Phase IIA) Test Results
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/22 Tank Car Operating Environment Study -- Phase I
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/16 Conceptual Development of Impact Overload Detection Devices for Tank Car Service
DOT/FRA/ORD-07/05 Tank Car Reliability Design and Analysis
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/16 Impact Performance of Draft Gears in 263,000 Pound Gross Rail Load and 286,000 Pound Gross Rail Load Tank Car Service
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/12 Damage Assessment of Railroad Tank Cars Involved in Accidents:
Phase I - Literature Search and Evaluation.
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/11 Survivability of Railroad Tank Car Top Fittings in Rollover Scenario Derailments
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/04-III Variable Amplitude Fatigue Crack Growth Characteristics of Railroad Tank Car Steel Volume III
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/04-II Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Railroad Tank Car Steel TC-128B Subjected to Various Environments Volume II - Appendices
DOT/FRA/ORD-06/04-I Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior of Railroad Tank Car Steel TC-128B Subjected to Various Environments Volume I
DOT/FRA/ORD-05/03 Comparative Safety of the Transport of High-Level Radioactive Materials on Dedicated, Key and Regular Trains - Technical Study
DOT/FRA/ORD-03/21 Railroad Tank Car Relief Valve Requirements for Liquid PIH Lading
DOT/FRA/ORD-02/04 Damage Assessment of Railroad Tank Cars Involved in Accidents:
Phase II - Modeling and Validation
DOT/FRA/ORD-01/21.i Evaluation of Semi-Empirical Analyses for Railroad Tank Car Puncture Velocity, Part I: Correlations with Experimental Data
DOT/FRA/ORD-01/21.ii Evaluation of Semi-Empirical Analyses for Railroad Tank Car Puncture Velocity, Part II: Correlations with Engineering Analyses
DOT/FRA/ORD-01/15 Steel Alloys with Lower Bainite Microstructures for Use in Railroad Cars and Track

DOT/FRA/ORD-01/14

Effects Of Coupler Height Mismatch On The Structural Integrity Of Railroad Tank Car Stub Sills
DOT/FRA/ORD-01/04 Railroad Tank Car Nondestructive Methods Evaluation

DOT/FRA/ORD-99/05

Non-Accident Release of Hazmat from Railroad Tank Cars:
Training Issues

DOT/FRA/ORD-98/05 Improved Source Location Using Sensor Arrays
DOT/FRA/ORD-98/09A Tank Car Thermal Analysis, Volume I, User's Manual for Analysis Program
DOT/FRA/ORD-98/09B Tank Car Thermal Analysis, Volume II: Technical Documentation Report for Analysis Program
DOT/FRA/ORD-97/xx Phase I Literature Search and Evaluation for Damage
DOT/FRA/ORD-95/11 Stub Sill Tank Car Research Project Results of a 15,000-mile over-the-road Test
DOT/FRA/ORD-95/03 Hazardous Materials Transportation in Tank Cars
Analysis of Risks - Part II
DOT/FRA/ORD-94/23 Thermal Boundary Conditions from Engulfing Fires
DOT/FRA/ORD-93/11 FRA Tank Car Manufacturing/Repair/Retest Facility Evaluation Form
DOT/FRA/ORD-93/10 Tank Car Fatigue Crack Growth Test
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/34 Hazardous Materials Transportation in Tank Cars
Analysis of Risks - Part I
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/29 Aluminum/Cold Temperature Tank Car Puncture Resistance Tests: Data Report
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/28 Controlled Tank Car Impact Tests
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/27 Field Product Removal Methods for Tank Cars
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/18.1 Hazardous Materials Car Placement in A Train Consist
Volume 1 - Review and Analysis
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/12 Aluminum Tank Car Puncture Resistance Evaluation
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/11 Chlorine Tank Car Puncture Resistance Evaluation
DOT/FRA/ORD-92/05 Residual Stress Measurements of Retrofitted Tank Car Weldments
DOT/FRA/ORD-91/05 Tank Car Accident Data Analysis
DOT/FRA/ORD-91/01 Hazardous Material Releases Due To Unsecured Openings and Lining Failures
DOT/FRA/ORD-90/02 Tank Car Frangible Disc Test
DOT/FRA/ORD-90/01 Thermal Response of a Small Scale Cask-Like Test Article to Three Different High Temperature Environments
None Available A Report on Tank Cars: Federal Oversight of Design, Construction and Repair
DOT/FRA/ORD-88/3690 Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Two AAR M128 and One ASTM A212-B Steel Tank Car Head Plates
DOT/FRA/ORD-88/14 A Risk Assessment Study on Transportation of Hazardous Materials over U.S. Railroads
DOT/FRA/ORD-88/04 Safety Testing of Intermodal Hazmat Configurations: Summary Report
DOT/FRA/ORD-88/02 Evaluation of Damaged Tank Car Structural Integrity
DOT/FRA/ORD-87/11 Evaluation of the Thermal Effectiveness of Urethane Foam and Fiberglass as Insulation for Tank Cars
DOT/FRA/ORD-87/06 Puncture Resistance of Scale Model Aluminum Tank Car Heads
DOT/FRA/ORD-87/04 Fire Tests on Insulation for Aluminum Tank Cars:  An evaluation of glass fiber, ceramic fiber, and mineral fiber materials in torch-fire and pool-fire environments.
DOT/FRA/ORD-85/12 Thermal Protection Study of Cryogenic Tank Cars
DOT/FRA/ORD-85/10 Thermal Insulation Systems Study for the Chlorine Tank Car
DOT/FRA/ORD-85/05 An Experimental Investigation of the Discharge of a Flashing Liquid from a Finite Reservoir
DOT/FRA/ORD-85/04 Small Scale Impact Simulation Tests
DOT/FRA/ORD-84/08.I Temperatures, Pressures, and Liquid Levels of Tank Cars Engulfed in Fires
DOT/FRA/ORD-83/20 Event Probabilities and Impact Zones for Hazardous Materials Accidents on Railroads
DOT/FRA/ORD-82/27 Special Routing of Spent Fuel Shipments
DOT/FRA/ORD-81/75.2 Engineering Data Characterizing the Fleet of US Railway Rolling Stock
DOT/FRA/ORD-81/75.I Engineering Data Characterizing the Fleet of U.S. Railway Rolling Stock: Volume 1 - User Guide
DOT/FRA/ORD-81/35 The Non-Steady Outflow of Propane Vapor from a Railroad Tank Car
DOT/FRA/ORD-81/33 A Metallurgical Evaluation of Two AAR M-128 Steel Tank Car Head Plates used in Switchyard Impact Tests
DOT/FRA/ORD-81/32 A Metallurgical Analysis of an ASTM A 212-B Steel Tank Car Head Plate
DOT/FRA/ORD-80/06 Results and Analysis of the Switchyard Impact Tests
DOT/FRA/ORD-78/32.1 Selected Topics in Railroad Tank Car Safety Research, Volume 1: Fatigue Evaluation of Prototype Tank Car Head Shield
DOT/FRA/ORD-78/32.2 Selected Topics in Railroad Tank Car Safety Research
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/300 The Calculation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Propane, Propylene, N-Butane, and Ethylene
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/298 Two-Phase Flow Model Test Facility
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/278 Theoretical Manual and User's Guide: Longitudinal-vertical Train Action Model
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/299 Thermodynamic Properties of Liquefied Petroleum Gases
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/269 Tank Car Head Puncture Mechanisms
DOT/FRA/ORD-76/74 Mechanical Properties of AAR M128-69-B Steel Plate Samples Taken From Insulated Fire-tested Tank Car RAX 202
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/52 A Metallurgical Investigation of a Full-Scale Insulated Rail Tank Car Filled with LPG Subjected to a Fire Environment
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/51 Impact Properties of Steels Taken From Four Failed Tank Cars
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/48 A Metallurgical Analysis of Five Steel Plates Taken from a Tank Car Accident Near Crescent City, Illinois
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/45 Rail Hazardous Material Tank Car Design Study
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/32 Comparison of Thermally Coated and Uninsulated Rail Tank Cars Filled with LPG Subjected to a Fire Environment
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/31 The Effects of a Fire Environment on a Rail Tank Car Filled with LPG
DOT/FRA/ORD-75/23 Computer Simulation of Tank Car Head Puncture Mechanisms
DOT/FRA-RT-71-74 A Study to Reduce the Hazards of Tank Car Transportation
DOT/FRA/TSC-1807 Rerouting and Speed Reduction of Hazardous Material Trains in Selected Conrail Corridors
NBSIR 88-3690 Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Two AAR M128 and One ASTM A212-B Steel Tank Car Head Plates

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