Distance explosive storage

Distances for storage of explosives Explosive and Toxic LLazard Materials page 370 (MeidI, 1970) Safe Handling Requirements during Explosive, Propellant and Pyrotechnic Manufacture (HSE, SIR 31)... 

Electrical area classification distances Distances for storage of explosives... 

Ref American Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives as Revised Approved by the Institute of Makers of Explosives, Sept 30, 1955... 

Accdg to DuPont Blasters Hdb (Ref 2, p 457), the American Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives was originally formulated in 1914 by "The Institute of Makers of Explosives", after painstaking research. It has been the subject of constant study and periodic revision since that time and undoubtedly embodies the most reliable weight and distance data available. 

Effect of explosions and table of distances for storage of explosives 5 El 1 —E12... 

The permitted distances from barricaded bldgs (called barricaded distances) to other bldgs, railroads, etc are enumerated in the American Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives, as Revised and Approved by the Institute of Makers of Explosives, Sept 30, 1955- This table is given in Refs 14,15 16...Distances shown in this table should be doubled if dangerous bldg are not barricaded... 

American Table of Distances for Storage of Class 1.1 Explosives... 

Effect of Explosions and Table of Distances for Storage of Explosives. Experiments have been carried out at various times and places to ascertain the distances at which,explosions will produce a specific effect accdg to the quantity of explosive. In the French experiments conducted in 1907 by Lheure, different quantities of various expls were exploded in the open and at various distances. A number of little screens were... 

A survey of several European nations, (Wharton and Bagley 2004), revealed only one - Switzerland - uses an full quantitative risk assessment (QRA) approach for explosive storage applications. Other respondents relied on quantity-distance (QD) rules for the majority of stores and only use QRA when wanting to deviate from the QD rules. Consequently, the Swiss framework, which we follow here, is different to that applied in other nations. In the Swiss model (Bienz 2003), incidents occur as a result of a sequence of events, beginning with precursors and imdergoing initiation and escalation processes. 

The hazard posed can be limited by maintaining a zone free of people and property around a storage area of explosive material. The minimum radius of the zone depends on the type and quantity of explosive, the extent and type of barrica ding, and the magnitude of loss that would be encountered if an explosive incident occurred. The maximum distance to which hazardous explosive effects propagate depends on the blast overpressure created, which as a first approximation is a function of the cube root of the explosive weight, W. This is termed the quantity distance and is defined as... 

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