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TS <br />4-A <br />Natlonel <br />Technical <br />systems <br />"J:_1 JL✓r Al'ItHif–AN UUN(AINv1EN1 PAGE 04 <br />Testort No. 576-8703 <br />Page of 10 <br />Testing Division <br />1536 East Vsleencia Drive <br />Fullerton, California 92631 <br />Tel: 714 1779 6110 <br />31 March 1995 <br />FULLERTON DIVISION REPORT NUMBER 576-.LO3 <br />American Containment <br />A. TEST: Structural <br />B. TEST ITEM: Fuel Containment Box, AMCOM Elite <br />Dispenser Drip Pan <br />C. SPECIFICATIONS: 1. Verbal instructions from <br />American containment <br />2. MIL -STD -45662A <br />3. MIL -1-45208A, Amendment 1 <br />D. TEST RESULTS: <br />The fuel containment box was installed into a rigid test <br />stand. The cross bar was installed into the box at the <br />longitudinal center. The side bolt mounted fuel shut off <br />valve was bolted to the cross bar. All tie down bolts and <br />attachment hardware were tightened. A pull test fixture was <br />screwed into the fracture coupling on the top of the shut <br />Off valve. A hydraulic cylinder with a load cell was <br />attached to the pull test fixture one (1) foot above the <br />fracture point. <br />The cross bar assembly and containment box were then <br />subjected to a pull test to fracture link failure in four <br />(4) directions; side-to-side and front -to -back. <br />The fracture link break points were as follows: <br />Side -to -Side Longitudinal 426 foot pounds <br />Side -to -Side Longitudinal 287 foot pounds <br />Front -to -Back a Lateral 285 foot pounds <br />Front -to -Back Lateral 311 foot pounds <br />Test data, an equipment list and test setup photographs are <br />attached. <br />This report and the to brtetAdcm eentaior.dl herein repreaeot the ""Ile of tatdnt teat artleke ideewled and aeiested by else alien partomcd to apeeiheatioas <br />tutdlor procedum elected by the aGeok ldad—1 Techalcal Systema (NTS) makes m reprea"Mtiowt exprrated or Implied that stub testing to edeQuate (Of, <br />inadmuste) to detnonatnte dfleleney, performance, reliability, or any other cberacteriatie of the theles being tetlad, or simper ptodnctr. This wort sbosld <br />not be relied upon es On endorsement or aettificatio® by NTS of the a aipmetn tested, nor does it rirprtatat say statemmt wbetsoever ss to in; merchantability or <br />fitness of the test araala of similar Sroducta for a partladet ptreyore, <br />