Impact test apparatus Rotter

Examples of equipment for mechanical shock or impact testing are the BAM Fallhammer, the Rotter test, the thirty kilogram Fallhammer test, and the Bureau of Mines Impact Apparatus [45]. The latter is shown in Figure 2.31. 

Both the US B of M and PA Impact Uadbinea have been used at Picatlnny Arsenal for the testing of liquid ezpls, with a modification in sample handling required only in the case of the BM appaiatus(Refs 12a St 16) Dr Rotter of the Research Dept, Woolwich, England, designed an apparatus and a method of teatiogfRefs 3 St 6), which is claimed to be more accurate than other known methods. This is now an official British test and the value obtained is known as FlfPigure of Insensitiveness) (qv)... 

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