A Metallurgical Investigation of a Full-Scale Insulated Rail Tank Car Filled with LPG Subjected to a Fire Environment.

摘要

An analysis of the failure of an insulated rail tank car, RAX 202,which had been tested to failure in a fire environment at White Sands Missile Range,New Mexico,was requested by the Federal Railroad Administration,Department of Transportation. The tank car,filled with approximately 33,000gallons of liquified petroleum gas (LPG),failed after approximately 94minutes of exposure to a JP-4jet fuel fire. The car fractured into four fragments which were examined in the field. Five plate samples from the four fragments were selected for laboratory study at the National Bureau of Standards.