Large Steel Tank Fails and Rockets to Height of 30 meters − Rupture Disc Installed Incorrectly
At a brewery, the base plate-to-shell weld seam of a 90-m3 vertical cylindrical steel tank failed catastrophically. The 4 ton tank “took off” like a rocket leaving its contents behind, and landed on a van, crushing it. The top of the tank reached a height of 30 m. The internal overpressure responsib...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Safety and Health at Work |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791115001080 |