A Monte-Carlo method used to study the fragment impact effect on the industrial facilities

The generated fragments due to the explosion of vessel under pressure may be threats to the surrounding equipments at the impact. The fragment characteristics are number, shape, mass, departure angles, departure velocity. These characteristics are considered as uncertain variables. The authors propo...

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Published inInternational journal for simulation and multidisciplinary design optimization Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 119 - 122
Main Authors Nguyen, Q. B., Mebarki, A., Ami Saada, R., Mercier, F., Reimeringer, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published EDP Sciences 01.04.2008
EDP sciences/NPU (China)
Subjects
Computer Science
Engineering Sciences
Explosion
fragment
impact
Materials
Mechanics
Modeling and Simulation
probability
source term
trajectory
vessel
VESSEL
SOURCE TERM
IMPACT
PROBABILITY
TRAJECTORY
FRAGMENT
EXPLOSION
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Summary:The generated fragments due to the explosion of vessel under pressure may be threats to the surrounding equipments at the impact. The fragment characteristics are number, shape, mass, departure angles, departure velocity. These characteristics are considered as uncertain variables. The authors propose the probability distribution for each variable. A fragment trajectory model concerning its shape is then presented in order to study the impact problem. The numerical simulations using the Monte-Carlo method allow calculating the probability of impact, Pimp between fragments and surrounding equipments.
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publisher-ID:smdo2408
ISSN:1779-627X
1779-6288
1779-6288
DOI:10.1051/smdo:2008016