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...
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Elsevier,
2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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