The explosion and fire on the Piper Alpha platform, 6 July 1988. A case study

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 356, Issue 1748, 1998, Pages 2929-2951

  Drysdale, D D ^a   Sylvester Evans, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b RSE Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accident investigation; Explosion; Fire; Fireball; Offshore installations; Piper Alpha

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042989130     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1998.0304     Document Type: Article

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