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Breakup of the firewall between the B and C modules of the piper alpha platform—I. Analysis by hand calculation

✍ Scribed by A.C. Palmer

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
695 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1350-6307

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✦ Synopsis

In the Piper Alpha disaster, the initial explosion in module C destroyed the firewall between modules C and B, and fragments caused secondary damage which lead to a fire. This paper describes the dynamic analysis of the explosion response of the firewall which was not intended to resist blast and was relatively lightly constructed. The analysis is based on hand calculation of idealised elastic and elastic-plastic models.

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