Structural behaviour due to explosions
Explosions can cause great damage to structures and neighboring buildings or equipment. Learn to determine the strength of structures when exposed to explosions and how to deal with the effects.
Handling the effect of an explosion in an industrial or civil environment
Explosions in a structure can cause significant damage to the structure and neighbouring buildings or equipment. In this course, you will learn, as an engineer with basic knowledge of strength theory, how to determine the strength of structures when exposed to explosion pressure waves and how to deal with various aspects surrounding the effect of an explosion on a structure.
For typical industrial gas or dust explosions, the structural response analysis is still in its early stages. To predict the structural response to explosion pressure, the design pressure is often applied as a 'safe' approach to explosion resistance. It is sometimes argued that, because an explosion is an exceptional load, there is no need to apply usual safety margins or that, due to the very fast loading, equipment tends to be stronger. These arguments are investigated thoroughly during the course.
When applying explosion venting, it is almost never checked that the external pressure does not cause damage to neighbouring equipment or buildings. As long as venting is into a safe direction and into open air, it is considered safe. Estimates of the strength of buildings when exposed to explosion pressure waves are often much too high.
Professional handling of the effect of explosions on structures
To know how to properly deal with the effect of gas and dust explosions on structures, you will learn about:
- Dynamics of structures focused on explosion response, material behaviour and consequences
- Strength calculations beyond the elastic limit, so taking into account plastic deformations
- Estimating failure limits of structures
- Cylindrical vessels: the general design formula is presented, including buckling
- Explosive effects on buildings: predicting effect with reliable empirical data
- Methods to estimate the strength of industrial buildings
- Installation of explosion venting and environmental effects (safety)
- Practical applications of the theory
Intended for
Engineers, who have a basic knowledge of structural engineering or mechanical engineering:
- Mechanical engineers involved in the structural design of process equipment
- Civil engineers who build in hazardous areas
- Explosion safety experts
Knowledge of strength calculations (stress-strain diagrams, beam calculations, frames, stress distribution over a cross-section) is required.
Course leader
ir. A. Harmanny
The teacher is a civil engineer, specialized in structural engineering. Before graduating, he designed an earthquake simulator and was involved for several years in (experimental and theoretical) research on the structural response to explosions.
In English on request
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Course leader
ir. Ake Harmanny
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Program
- Reception and registration
- A short introduction about the course.
- Introduction to the phenomenon of dust and gas explosion. Includes live demonstration of a dust explosion.
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- The behavior of the structure of steel during loads (elastic region, yielding, strengthening). How is this behavior affected by rapid loads (explosions)?
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- Dynamics of structures, focused on the response to an explosive load.
- Lunch
- Force distribution in statically determinate and statically indeterminate structures, effect of ductility. Plastic hinges.
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- Case 1: Determination of the force distribution in a frame, using plastic hinges. Discussion.
- Completion of day 1
- Strength of buildings stressed by explosions: empirical data and pragmatic estimation methods.
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- Strength analysis of plates. Flow lines method.
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- Case 2: Strength analysis of a rectangular channel, including the possibility of strengthening it.
- Lunch
- Introduction of the standard EN14460:2018 “Material resistance to explosions”.
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- Behavior of cylindrical vessels, with flat or domed ends, both under internal overpressure and underpressure (vacuum).
- Evaluation and closing
Course leader
ir. Ake Harmanny
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