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Verification of compliance of the transport packaging kit design with the requirements for packages intended for the transport of radioactive materials by air, provides for a collision with a target at a speed of not less than 90 M/s. Confirmation of this basic parameter of the tests should be duplicated by several measurement methods including the use of analog means of film registration. The paper describes an algorithm for determining the speed of the transport packaging kit before impact on the information on the film carrier. The questions connected with the choice of the geometrical scheme of registration and realization of various variants of frame filling are considered. The determination of the linear movement of the transport packaging kit in the shooting plane, the calculation of the scale and frequency of shooting is described. An example of the application of the technique to determine the speed of the transport packaging kit before impact in one of the experiments on the missile track is given.

The paper describes ballistic test site equipment used for studying the physical and mechanical properties of materials exposed to intense dynamic loads. To study the properties of shock-compressed substances, explosive shock wave generators based on powerful condensed explosives are used. The methods of dispersal of the used strikers in different throwing modes with different types of guns are briefly described. The methodological development in cannon experiments on light-gas guns is given, in which the conditions of safe acceleration of the strikers in the barrels of the guns and the loading parameters of the latter which provide the required collision speeds of the striker and the target are confirmed. Numerical and experimental results of testing the selected throwing modes are presented.

IAEA standards for collision testing include conducting an experiment with a mock-up of a TUK package in conditions simulating an aviation accident. The sample should be subjected to a collision with a rigid barrier at a speed of not less than 90 m/s, and in such a position as to cause maximum damage. The target must also comply with the requirements of the norms-to be a flat horizontal surface of such a kind that any increase in the resistance to displacement or deformation of this surface when the sample falls on it does not lead to a significant increase in the damage of this sample. The surface of the target can be in any position, but it must be perpendicular to the trajectory of the sample. Rocket tracks are used to carry out such tests with packages weighing up to half a ton. AS such experiments are isolated and expensive, a strict justification of compliance with the requirements for the impact angle of the parameters that are actually implemented during the tests is required. The paper presents methods of measuring these parameters in the experiment and determines their accuracy.