ISO packaging tests ensure that products and services are safe, reliable, and of good quality. For businesses, they are strategic tools that reduce costs by minimizing waste and errors and increasing productivity. They help companies to access new markets, level the playing field for developing countries, and facilitate free and fair global trade.
ISO 2244 Shock Testing Standards
ISO 2244:2000 (2016) Packaging – Complete, filled transport packages and unit loads – Horizontal impact tests. This International Standard specifies methods of horizontal impact testing (horizontal or inclined plane test and pendulum test) on a complete, filled transport package or a unit load. The test may be performed either as a single test to investigate the effects of horizontal impact or as part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package or a unit load to withstand a distribution system that includes a horizontal impact hazard.
ISO 13355 Vibration Testing Standards
ISO 13355 2016 Packaging: Complete filled transport packages and unit loads. Vertical random vibration tests. This International Standard specifies a method to carry out a vertical random vibration test on a complete, filled transport package(s) and unit loads using random excitation1. This document also provides methods for assessing the performance of a package in terms of its strength or the protection that it offers to its contents when it is subjected to vertical vibration. The test discussed in this document can be performed either as a single test with vibration shaker machine to investigate the effects of vertical vibration or as a part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a test specimen to withstand a distribution system that includes a vibration hazard.
ISO 8318 Vibration Testing Standards
ISO 8318 (2000) Packaging – Complete, filled transport packages and unit loads – Sinusoidal vibration tests using a variable frequency. This International Standard specifies two methods for carrying out a sinusoidal vibration test on a complete, filled transport package or unit load using a variable frequency. These tests may be used to assess the performance of a package or a unit load in terms of its strength or the protection that it offers to its contents when it is subjected to vertical vibration. Each may be performed either as a single test to investigate the effects of vertical vibration or as part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package or unit load to withstand a distribution system that includes a vibration hazard.
ISO 2248 Drop Testing Standards
ISO 2248:1985Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Vertical impact test by dropping. Raising the test package above a rigid plane surface and releasing it to strike this surface (the "impact surface") after a free fall. The atmospheric conditions, the height of the drop, and the attitude of the package are predetermined. An annex gives the predetermined attitude of the test package.
ISO 2247 Transportation Testing Standards
ISO 2247 Packaging: Complete, filled transport packages and unit loads. Vibration tests at low frequency. This International Standard specifies methods to carry out vibration tests on complete, filled transport packages or unit loads using sinusoidal excitation at a fixed frequency. These tests may be used to assess the performance of packages and unit loads in terms of the strength or the protection that they offer to their contents when subjected to low-frequency vibration. These tests may be performed either as a single test to investigate the effects of low-frequency vibration or as a part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package or unit load to withstand a distribution system that includes a vibration hazard at low frequency or repetitive shocks.
ISO 2248 Incline Impact Testing Standards
ISO 2248:1985 Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Vertical impact test by dropping. Raising the incline impact test package above a rigid plane surface and releasing it to strike this surface (the "impact surface") after a free fall. The atmospheric conditions, the height of the drop, and the attitude of the package are predetermined. An annex gives the predetermined attitude of the test package.
ISO 2244 Incline Impact Testing Standards
ISO 2244:2000 (2016) Packaging – Complete, filled transport packages and unit loads – Horizontal impact tests. This International Standard specifies methods of horizontal impact testing (horizontal or inclined plane test and pendulum test) on a complete, filled transport package or a unit load. The test may be performed either as a single test to investigate the effects of horizontal impact or as part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package or a unit load to withstand a distribution system that includes a horizontal impact hazard.
ISO 2874 Compression Testing Standards
ISO 2874 Packaging -Complete, filled transport packages - Stacking test using compression tester 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 compression load is not to be applied over the whole surface of the package which is being tested, appropriate devices should be suitably interposed between the package and plate of the press in order to simulate the conditions met in practice when applying these compression loads.
ISO 2872 Compression Testing Standards
ISO 2872-1:1973 Packaging — Complete, filled transport packages — Part 1: Compression test. The test may be used to assess the performance of a package in terms of its strength or of the protection it offers to its contents when it is subjected to compressive forces. It may be performed either as a single test to investigate the effects (deformation, collapse or failure) of compression or as part of a sequence of tests designed to measure the ability of a package to withstand a distribution system that includes a compression hazard.
ISO 13820 Compression Testing Standards
ISO 13820 Describes the specifications of the equipment needed to perform compressive testing on materials such as paper, cardboard, and corrugated fiberboard. Two options of compression machines are included: the compression tester with fixed platforms, which applies forces at a constant rate; and those using one platform at a fixed rate and another with a deformable bar, where neither the rate nor the pressure is constant.
Compression testing is also essential to ensure cargo safety during transport. These tests can be combined with stability tests to optimize load stability and stiffness.