Characteristic overpressure - Impulse-distance curves for vessel burst

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 250-254

  Ferradás, Enrique González ^a   Alonso, Fernando Díaz ^a   Sánchez Pérez, Juan Francisco ^a   Aznar, Agustín Miñana ^a   Gimeno, José Ruiz ^a   Alonso, Jesús Martínez ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Proteccion Civil   (Spain)

Author keywords

Explosion; Overpressure; Rupture; Tank; Vessel

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; EXPLOSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

BAKER METHOD; CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; OVERPRESSURE; VESSEL BURST;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS; CURVE FITTING; EXPLOSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EID: 33748297677     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.10140     Document Type: Article

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