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For more than 50 years, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has led the fire research industry in laboratory- and full-scale fire performance evaluation, supporting the automotive, rail, mass transit, marine, and aerospace industries.

SwRI Expands Its Services to the Transportation Industry

SwRI now provides services to the transportation industry according to the recommendations in the Transport of Dangerous Goods Manual of Tests and Criteria, published by the United Stations (New York and Geneva, 1995). This work is used to establish compliance for land, air, or sea transport of potentially hazardous substances under national and international laws.

SwRI provides fire performance services as well as the services and facilities below to the transportation industry worldwide:

• Evaluation of fuel delivery systems

• Evaluation of fuel delivery tanks

• Alternative fuel studies

• Performance and certification of shipping containers for radioactive and hazardous materials

• U.S. Coast Guard classification/certification

• IMO FTP code testing classification/certification

• Evaluation of interior components

• Toxicity studies

• Corrosivity studies

• Evaluation of aboveground fuel storage tanks

• Structural evaluation

• Full-scale rate of heat release calorimetry

• Evaluation of large, collision-induced liquid and gas fires

• Thermal shield evaluation

• Heat shield evaluation

For more information about fire technology services and capabilities for the transportation industry at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please call (210) 522-2311 or e-mail fire-info@swri.org.
 

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Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is a multidisciplinary, independent, nonprofit, applied engineering and physical sciences research and development organization with 11 technical divisions.

February 07, 2007