SwRI Fire Services for the Transportation Industry: full-scale fire performance evaluation for the automotive, rail, mass transit, marine, and aerospace industries

 

Having led the fire research industry in laboratory- and full-scale fire performance evaluation for more than 50 years, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) continues to support the following transportation industries:

  • Automotive

  • Rail

  • Mass transit

  • Marine

  • Aerospace

Fire Services for the Transportation Industry

Programs for the transportation industry have typically included:

  • 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

Fuel Tanks

ECE R34, FMCSA 49CFR 393.67

CNG/LPG Tanks

DOT FMVSS 304, DOT 49CFR, Ch 1, Sec 179.105-4, NFPA 58

Alternative Fuel Studies

ECE R34

Aboveground Fuel Storage Tank

UFC 79-7, SwRI 93-01, SwRI 95-03, UL 142, UL 2085, UL 2080, SwRI 99-01

Shipping Containers

10 CFR 71

Interior Components

DOT FMVSS 302, ASTM E 1354, ASTM E 152, ASTM E 662, ASTM E 648, ISO 1182, NFPA 130

U.S. Coast Guard/IMO Testing/Classification Certification

IMO FTP Code Resolution MSC.61(67)

Toxicity/Corrosivity 

UPITT Smoke Toxicity, SwRI 95-02

Structural Elements

ASTM E 119, ASTM E 1529, BS476 Part 20, 24, ISO 834, NFPA 251, NFPA 130

 

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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