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      <title>STOWAGE OF HEAVY GOODS IN CONTAINERS AND ON FLATS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This booklet is a result of the study "Stowage of Heavy Goods in Containers and on Flats".  The study was initiated by the Steel Committee of the Swedish Shippers Council and subsidised by the Transport Research Delegation.  The recommendations worked out with the cooperation of various parties involved in the transport sector, are based on theoretical calculations and practical tests.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 1980 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>STANDARDISATION OF LARGE CONTAINERS AND LARGE CONTAINER WAGONS. LOADING CONDITIONS FOR LARGE CONTAINER WAGONS ACCORDING TO UIC LEAFLET 571-4--SECTION I</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report gives some simple loading rules for container wagons, these rules being intended for railway staff and users.  In addition, the appendix gives the bases taken for the establishment of these rules and also the approximations made: this information can be used for determining, in limit cases, the optimum loading of the wagon considered.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 1979 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>COMMODITY TO VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEMS. DYNAMIC TESTS ON NAILED-WOOD JOINTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An account of laboratory tests in which forces, acceleration and displacement produced during the tests were measured for 313 combinations of various types of wood blocks, sizes and quantity of nails and forces of inertia.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Computer program used in the Distribution of Empty Equipment on Southern Railway providing the following information about equipment: (1) A description of car including per diem, nominal capacity, last commodity (if available), assignments and other information.  (2) A description of how car can be loaded in compliance with existing rules and directives.  (3) Instruction on where car can be sent on line to be loaded if not needed.  (4) Instructions on how to return car to owner if not needed for loading on Southern. The information is used by field forces to distribute empty equipment.  This inquiry also verifies interchanges and indicates those cars that are being improperly delivered to Southern.  This information is available on an inquiry basis at over 70 locations on the railroad.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RULES GOVERNING LOADING OF COMMODITIES ON OPEN-TOP CARS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New and revised pages, the tenth such revision to the original publication in 1960, are now available for the loose-leaf Rules of the AAR Mechanical Division.  If complete books have not been revised through August 1972, the complete publication with all seven sections, binder and fastener is available for $12.00.  If only the 1973 revisions are needed, the price of the loose-leaf pages to bring the entire book up to date costs $2.65.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 1976 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TESTS ON HIGH TENSILE BANDING TO DETERMINE EFFECT OF RADIUS AT POINT OF SECUREMENT</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report covers tests requested by the AAR Mechanical Division Committee on Loading Rules to study the radius at point of securement for steel strapping.  Where high tension bands are used for hold down securement, the bands may be secured to the car in several different ways.  The most common are through the stake pockets or to specially provided anchor pockets.  Where these methods are not provided, or the load is of such design as to make these securement facilities impractical, steel bars or rods or steel bolts may be attached to the car to provide anchorage for the high tension bands.  Whichever type of securement is used, Rule 16, of Section 1, of the General Rules covering the loading of Commodities on Open Top Cars, specifies that points where the bands contact the securement pocket must be rounded off or provided with metal fillers to protect the bands.  To determine a minimum allowable radius they requested static and dynamic tests on radii up to 1/2 in. In the event of load shift the hold down strap will shift and the strap will be at some angle other than 90 degrees to the edge of the stake pocket or whatever securement was provided.  This change in the strap angle will result in the strap being loaded at one edge.  To investigate this condition the committee requested static and dynamic tests with the strap at an angle of 15 degrees as well as for a straight pull.  The results of tests at a radius and angle where there were no failures at the radius of curvature were averaged.  This average represents 100 percent of the strap capacity.  Those tests at radii and angles where failure occurred at the radius of curvature are listed as the percent of the strap capacity for the five tests at the particular radius and angle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 1975 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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