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Breakup of the firewall between the B and C modules of the Piper Alpha platform — II. Analysis by finite elements and comparison with hand calculation

✍ Scribed by Ed Pask; Andrew Palmer; John Miles

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 784 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 1350-6307
DOI: 10.1016/s1350-6307(99)00032-1

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✦ Synopsis

In the Piper Alpha disaster, the initial explosion in module C destroyed the ®rewall between modules C and B, and fragments caused secondary damage which led to a ®re. This paper describes the dynamic ®nite-element analysis by OASYS DYNA3D of the explosion response of the ®rewall, and compares the results with those from a hand calculation described in an earlier paper.

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