This International Standard specifies a method for carrying out a stacking test on complete, filled transport packages, using a compression tester. This test may be used to assess the perfor-mance of a package in terms of its strength or the protection that it offers to its contents when it is subjected to stacking. It may be performed either as a single test to investigate the ef-fects (deformation, creep, collapse or failure) of stacking or as part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package to withstand a distribution system that includes a stacking hazard.
The test may also be used to investigate performance under particular conditions of loading, as, for example, when the bottom package in a stack rests on an open-decked pallet. When the compression load is not to be applied ?ver the whole sur-face of the package which is being tested, appropriate devices should be suitably interposed between the package and pl?ten of the press in order to simulate the conditions met in practice when applying these compression loads.
NOTE — A method for carrying out a stacking test on a complete, filled transport package, using one of three methods of applying a static load, is given in ISO 2234. A method for testing the compression resistance of a complete, filled transport package, using a compression tester, is given in ISO 2872.
SIS SS-ISO 2874:1988 history
1988SIS SS-ISO 2874:1988 Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Stacking test using compression tester