Field Experiment on Vertical Impact Force at Empty Container Landing

Abstract

Containers usually receive various types of impact forces on the way of distribution. Packaging of the container cargoes is designed to withstand these impacts. So it is important to obtain the exact impact load factors in distribution. Nevertheless, the studies are very few and the old data of impact load factors are not presented for various type of containers. As it is reported that containers receive strong impact at ship's loading, field experiments respecting the vertical impacts are carried out by using eight types of containers. Some interesting results are explained in this paper.