Risk-targeted safety distance of reinforced concrete buildings from natural-gas transmission pipelines

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 148, Issue , 2016, Pages 57-66

  Russo, Paola ^a   Parisi, Fulvio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Explosion; Natural gas pipeline; Risk assessment; Safety distance; Structural damage

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETES; DAMAGE DETECTION; EXPLOSIONS; GASES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION; PIPELINES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; HIGH PRESSURE NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINE; PRESSURE-IMPULSE DIAGRAMS; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN; SAFETY DISTANCES; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES;

NATURAL GAS PIPELINES;

EID: 84954513354     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2015.11.016     Document Type: Article

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