PUBLICATIONS AND VIDEOS

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• Editorial: 'Energy-in-Transition industries: An opportunity to have inherently safer and low risk industries'
• Inherently safer design of projects: A tool to reduce major hazards accident risks during energy transition
• Numerical characterization of under-expanded cryogenic…

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• Editorial: '30 Years of Fire and Blast Engineering: A Structural Engineer's Perspective'
• Modelling of masonry cavity cladding systems under blast loading
• Updates on fire resistance design of steel joints in EN 1993-1-2
• Blast wave time of arrival: A reliable metric to…

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• Editorial: 'Reports from previous fire & explosion research projects now available on FABIG Website'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Toxic Products: Management, Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness'
• Hazards and risks related to the use of hydrogen…

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• Editorial: 'Explosion and fire hazards associated with fracking sites'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Review of Current Understanding of Large-scale Explosion Mechanisms'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'New Developments in Fire & Gas…

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• Editorial: 'Let's bring safety to the field'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Developments in Fire & Explosion Engineering for a Hydrogen Economy'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Fire & Explosion Hazards caused by Spray Releases'
• Summary…

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• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered ‘Fire Hazards in Enclosed Spaces / Compartments’
• A review of the Q9 equivalent cloud method for explosion modelling
• Comparative assessment of methods used to determine the effect of fire loads on the ultimate strength of…

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• Editorial: 'Probabilistic simulation is safer and faster'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Managing Fire & Explosion Hazards in a Low Oil Price Environment'
• One-way versus two-way fluid-structure interaction analyses of offshore installations in fires…

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• Editorial: 'Is the pursuit of theoretical modelling disrupting major accident risk management?'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Testing of Products and Materials Subjected to Fires & Explosions'
• Behaviour of intumescent coatings under different fire…

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• Editorial: 'Large fires can be hotter than normally considered'
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered "Leak Frequencies: Up or Down?"
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered "New Developments For Design Against Cryogenic Releases"
• Advances in Consequence…

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• Design Explosion Loads Specification for Safety Critical Systems
• New Procedure for Non-linear Structural Response Analysis of Offshore Installations subjected to Explosions
• Robustness of Steel Framed Structures in Fire: Effects of Joints and Methods of Improvement
• Research…

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• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered "Improving Safety by Integrating Lessons from Undesirable Events into Design and Operation"
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered "New Insights into Risk Assessment"
• Optimisation of Site Layout and Process Design using…

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• Reviews of the UK Technical Meetings which covered "Developments in Fire Loading and Relevant Standards" and "Lessons Learnt from Recent Accidents"
• Large Eddy Simulation of a Mechanically Ventilated Compartment Fire
• ISO Jet Fire Standard ISO 22899-1:2007 & ISO/TR 22899…

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• Review of the UK Technical Meetings which covered "Sources and Likelihood of Ignition Mechanisms" and "New Developments in Explosion Control and Mitigation"
• The Method and Benefits of Risk-based Fire and Gas Detection Mapping
• Four Generations of Fire and Blast Resistant…

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• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Subsea Hydrocarbon Release Hazards"
• Societal Risk Criteria for Industrial Activities
• Characterization of Deluge Spray with Image Processing
• Blast Pressure Distribution around Large Storage Tanks
• Probabilistic Scenario Based…

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• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG)"
• Analysis of an ISO Container Subjected to Blast Loading from Vapour Cloud Detonations
• Ignition of Explosive Mixtures via Particles Heated by Electromagnetic Radiation
• MDOF Procedure for…

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• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Structural Materials for Weight Saving on Offshore Topsides"
• Structural Composite Fire & Blast Protection Enclosure for Reducing Equipment Skid Weight
• Effect of Pool Fires on Offshore Platform Decks
• Hydrogen Jet Fire…

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• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Managing Hazards in Extreme Operating Conditions"
• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Determination and Specification of Explosion Loads"
• Large Vapour Clouds - Dispersion and Explosion Characteristics
• Blast…

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• Review of the Korean Technical Meeting which covered "Explosion & Fire Risk Control in Various Industries"
• Review of the Korean Technical Meeting which covered "Fires and Explosions in Petrochemical Plants"
• Review of the UK Technical Meeting which covered "Risk…

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• The Importance of Experimental Research in the Understanding of Gas Explosions
• Advances in Explosion Modelling
• Experimental Research on Fire Loading and its Implications Today
• Adoption of Risk Based Assessment Methods for Fires and Explosions in Design
• Advances in Structural…

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• Review of Technical Meeting which covered "Update on Fire & Explosion Guidance, Standards & Regulations"
• Review of Technical Meeting which covered "Carbon Capture & Storage - The Safety Issues"
• Review of Technical Meeting which covered "Vapour Cloud Formation"…

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• Review of Technical Meeting which covered "Best Practice in Fire and Explosion Modelling"
• Review of Technical Meeting which covered "New Developments in Fire Resistant Materials"
• Robustness of Steel Framed Structures in Fire
• Transient Pressure Loading of Clamped Plates with…

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• Review of Technical Meeting which covered 'Reassessment and Upgrade of Existing Facilities'
• Goal Setting Approach for Blast Resistant Design
• The Nomogram for Axial Concentration Decay in Hydrogen Momentum-Controlled Jets
• Improved Estimation of Failure Frequencies for…

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• Review of Past Technical Meetings which covered ‘Liquefied Natural Gas’, ‘Design for Extreme Events’ and ‘Update on Recent Events and Related Research’
• Explosion & Fire Engineering of FPSOs (EFEF JIP): Definition of Design Fire Loads
• Specifying Intumescent Coatings for…

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• Review of Technical Meeting covering ‘Complex Release Scenarios’
• Leak frequency modelling for offshore QRA based on the hydrocarbon release database
• Concentration decay in Hydrogen non-reacting momentum-controlled jets
• Strain based acceptance criteria for blast resistant…

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• Update of the ‘Fire & Blast Technical Directory’ on FABIG website
• Video recordings of Technical Meetings available on demand on FABIG website
• Review of past FABIG Technical Meetings
• An improved ray casting tool for flame detection analysis
• What does inherently safer mean…

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• Revision to FABIG Technical Note 11
• Review of FABIG Technical Meeting on ‘Managing Low Probability High Consequence Events’
• A Methodology for the Assessment of Gas Detector Configurations in Offshore Intake Ducts
• Dispersion of Accidental Release of H2S on a Gas production…

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• Review of FABIG Technical Meeting on ‘Learning from the Nuclear Industry’
• Summary of findings of the FABIG Members’ survey
• The Buncefield Explosion Mechanism Phase 1 and proposal for Phase 2
• Domino Effect Analysis of Process Equipments Using Fragility Curves
• Recommendations…

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• Review of FABIG Technical Meeting on ‘Design of Structures against Hydrocarbon Fires’
• Why ISO 13702 and NFPA 15 standards may lead to unsafe design
• A CFD model for the backdraught phenomenon and its application to inform venting and firefighting strategies at basement…

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• Review of FABIG Technical Meeting on ‘Design and Siting of Process Plant Buildings’
• Time Dependency of Accidents and Response in Petrochemical Plants
• Design Against Malevolent Acts: The Case of Underwater Explosions
• Safety Concerns Related to the Introduction of Biofuels

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• Hydrogen Safety Activities at the University of Ulster
• Spontaneous Ignition of Hydrogen in Accidental Releases of High Pressure Hydrogen - A Possible Mechanism: Diffusion Ignition
• Portable Buildings within Processing Plants

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• Members of the FABIG Steering Committee for 2008-2009
• Improvements to the FABIG website
• A Methodology for Fire Hazard Assessment
• Internal Explosive Loading of Steel Pipes
• American Society of Safety Engineers – Middle East Chapter (ASSE-MEC) Conference in Bahrain addresses…

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• Launch of a ‘Fire & Blast Technical Directory’ on FABIG Website
• The Modern Approach to Offshore Safety Management
• A Critical Review of Probabilistic Explosion Risk Assessment
• Hydrocarbon Jet Fire Hazards in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Hydrocarbon Fires - Large Scale…

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• Development of an Ignition Probability Model for the Oil & Gas Industry
• Failure Probability Of Process Equipment Subjected To Vapour Cloud Explosions
• Assessment of mathematical models for the prediction of smoke ingress & movement in offshore installations

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• Disseminating the Lessons Learnt from Recent Onshore and Offshore Accidents
• Lessons from Texas City: A Case History
• Full Scale Explosion tests on Explosion Relief Panels
• Uncertainty Analysis of QRA

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• FABIG Seeks Contribution to Fire & Blast Technical Directory
• FABIG Launches a New Products & Services Directory
• Designing of Electronic Assembly to Resist Explosion-induced Vibration (Part II)
• Response Spectra for Explosion Resistant Design and Assessment
• FABIG…

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• Design of Electronic Assemblies to Resist Explosion - Induced Vibration (Part 1)
• Understanding and Responding to Security Risk for Oilfield Installation
• Hazard and Safety Management Training Needs in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
• Predicting Glazing…

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• A Probabilistic Procedure for Design of Process Areas Against Fires
• Research Needs for Prevention and Mitigation of Major Fire Hazards Relating to Onshore Plant
• Research Needs for Major Hazards Relating to Onshore Plant - Gas Explosions
• Achieving ALARP in Topside Blast…

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• Summary Report from FABIG Steering Committee Meeting
• An Example of the Use of Crushable Struts in Blast-Resistant Design
• Bayesian Decision Analysis for Optimal Upgrading of Offshore Installations
• Stainless Steel Blast and Fire Resistant Structures

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• The Inevitability if Ignition
• ISO - Damage Diagrams for Blast Resistant Design
• FABIG Technical Note 8: Protection of Piping Systems Subjected to Fires and Explosions
• Modelling of Steel Blast Panels
• Satel - Structural Analysis Tool for Explosion Loading

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• Static Resistance of Stiffened Plates Subjected to Explosions
• Practical Fire Safe Design of Equipment Supports: Determining the Need for PFP
• Kameleon Fireex - An Advance Computational System for Calculation of Fire Structure Interaction
• A Summary of Fire and Blast Issues…

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• Response to Comments on FABIG Article R505 - 'Exceedence Curves and the Definition of Load Cases for Explosion Assessment'
• Understanding Risk Through Bayesian Updating
• Design and Analysis of Stainless Steel Profiled Blast Barriers

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• The Concept of Safety Barriers and their Optimal Design
• Combining Structural and Safety Perspectives in Fire Hazard Assessments
• Explosion Risk Assessment - General Approach
• Pipes Exposed to Medium Sized Jet Fires - Rupture Conditions and Models for Predicting Time to…

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• Practical Blast Resistant Design of Plates
• Exceedance Curves and the Definition of Load Cases for Explosion Assessment
• Resistance to Accidental and Very Extreme Explosions
• Simplified Assessment of Steel Framed Structures Subject to Blast Followed by Fire

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• FABIG Technical Meetings Review
• A Recurrence Law for Explosion Overpressure
• Some Thoughts on Article R495
• The Use of Bow-Ties and Thesis in the Control of Major Accident Hazards
• Under-Ventilated Compartment Fires - Introduction of the EC Funded Firenet Project

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• Performance-Based Fire Resistant Design
• Water Deluge and Influence on Dispersion
• Scale Testing of Profiled Stainless Steel Blast Walls
• Jet Effect in Vented Explosions

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• A Practical Approach to Fire Hazard Analysis for Offshore Structures
• Reassessment of Gas Explosion Hazard on Offshore Facilities
• Performance Based Blast Resistant Designs
• Revised Norsok Standard N-004 on Accidental Explosions
• Developments of the Test to Determine the…

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• FABIG Technical Meeting Review
• ERA Conference 2002
• Probabilistic Cost-Benefit Analysis For Blast Design
• Explosion Risks in Large and Wide Spread Process Areas and Loads on Intermediate Sized Equipment
• Proposed API Guidance on Fire and Blast
• Probabilistic Analysis of Gas…

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• Response of Secondary Systems to Explosion
• Guidelines for Protection of Pressurised Systems Exposed to Fire
• Determination of the Resistance to Jet Fires of Passive Fire Protection Materials
• Fire & Blast Considerations in the Future Design of Offshore Facilities - June…

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• FABIG Technical Notes 6 & 7
• Design of Passive Fire Protection
• Design of Offshore Facilities to Resist Gas Explosion Hazards - Engineering Handbook
• Inertia Limit of Vent Cover in Explosion Protection Systems
• On Water Sprays in Fire Protection Engineering
• How Distribution…

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• FABIG Technical Note 7: Simplified Methods for Response Analysis to Dynamic Loading
• An Approximate Method for Blast Resistant Design
• Design of Offshore Facilities to Resist Gas Explosion Hazard - Engineering Handbook
• Use of Safety Barrier Diagrams in Offshore QRA in Denmark

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• A Workbook Approach to Estimating the Flammable Volume Produced by a Gas Release
• Risk-Based Design of Passive Fire Protection
• Safety Management Offshore: A Systematic Approach
• New Guidelines on Pressure Relief

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• FABIG Goes West
• A Workbook Approach to Estimating the Flammable Volume Produced by a Gas Release
• Water Containers are Demonstrated to have Passive Gas Explosion Suppression Capability
• Guidance for Analysis and Design of Profiled Blast Barriers
• Blast Response of Steel…

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• Engineering and Human Factors Go Hand-In-Hand
• Revised Fire and Explosion Guidance
• 10th ERA Conference November 2001
• Sadie Initiative
• Integrity and Structural Response of Piping
• Developments in Fire Engineering
• Developments in Gas Explosion Safety in The 1990's in Norway…

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• Pulse Pressure Testing of ¼ Scale Stainless Steel Blast Walls and Blast Wall Connections
• Error in the Design of Hazardous Plant
• Explosion Safety Engineering: Design of Venting Areas for Enclosures at Atmospheric and Elevated Initial Pressures
• Safer Design - An Attitude

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• Response of Process Vessels and Equipments to Fire Attack
• CFD Modelling of the Confined Jet Fire Tests in the Phase 2 Project
• Modelling the Response of Steel Panels to Explosions
• A New Approach in Fixed Gas Leak Detection - The Ultrasonic Acoustic Sensor
• Barrier Method: An…

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• Foamspex Project
• Some Further Simulations of the Compartment Fires in the Phase 2 Project
• Gas Explosions in Offshore Modules Following Realistic Releases Phase 3B
• Managing Fire Hazards on Offshore Installations
• Elevated Temperature and Strain Rate Material Properties of…

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• Marine Fire Protection
• Explosion Design For FPSO's
• A Systemic Approach To Offshore Fire Safety Management
• Received Loading Test Cases
• Blast Loading Of Scaled Structural Members
• Updating Explosion And Fire Design Guidance

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• FLACS Stimulations Of Test 23 Of The BFETS Campaign - Loading On Stiffened Panels
• Phase 2 Unconfined Horizontal Jet Fire Test: Why Was Phase Off?
• Comments On The Model Evaluation For Compartment Fires In The Phase 2 Project
• How Advanced Are The Blast Wall Response Analyses…

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• Research On Health And Safety - The HSE Perspective
• The Contribution Of Research And Development to a Step Change in Safety
• New Knowledge, New Changes?
• Blast And Fire Engineering Project - Phase 1
• The Interim Guidance Notes
• Scope And Objectives Of Phase 2
• Unconfined Fire Test…

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• How Advanced Are The Blast Wall Response Analyses For The Offshore Industry
• DINGESS - A Proposed Joint Industry Project
• Offshore Explosion Research
• Phase 2 - Structural Testing

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• Rules For The Determination Of Coat-Back Requirements
• A Model For Predicting The Hazards From Large Scale Compartment Jet Fires
• Announcement Of A New Pulse Pressure Loading Facility
• Integrated Risk Assessment Package For Offshore Installations

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• Maximising The Resistance of Topside Structures Against Blast Loads
• Offshore Explosion Research - The Next Phase
• Emergency Evacuation Trials
• Vectra - New Licensing Agent For Chaos
• Schiehallion Escape Tunnel
• FLACS Commercial Launch
• Seminar on Results of "Gas Safety Programme 93…

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• Failure of Corrugated Firewalls Subjected to Hydrocarbon Explosions
• Offshore Fires & Explosions "The Industry Goes Full Scale"
• Explosion Model Evaluation Project (EME)
• Safety First For Gas Turbine Enclosures

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• The Development of Technical Guidance
• Aspects of High Integrity Protection Systems (HIPS) In Hazard Management on Offshore Installations
• Emergency Evacuation - A New Joint Industry Project
• BRAE Risk Reduction Project - A Practical Approach To QRA
• New Technical Note on…

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• Sensitivity Study on Structural Aspects of Fire & Blast (Phase 1)
• Effectiveness of Water Deluge in Mitigation Fires
• Rules For The Determination of Coatback Requirements
• Assessment of Blast Resistance of Offshore Topside Structures
• Hazards Posed By Releases of Pressurised…

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• Engineering Relations For Water Mist Fire Suppression Systems
• Retrofitting of Blast Walls for Offshore Structures
• Development of a Performance Standard Approach to Passive Fire Protection Design
• Drop Down Fire Barrier: Innovative Engineering on BP Exploration Clyde Platform

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• The UK Safety Case Assessment of Floating Production and Storage Installations
• Risk Analysis for Semi-Submersible Drilling Units Operating in the North Sea
• Hazard Analysis for Floating Production Storage & Offloading (FPSO) Installations
• Fire and Explosion Aspects of…

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• New UKCS Regulations
• Strength Assessment of Topside Structures Subjected to Fire
• Integrated Fire Analysis
• Gas Explosion Engineering Joint Industry Project (GEEJIP)
• Microtherm HRB Fire Protection Panels
• Offshore Safety Cases – HSE Experiences
• What is Reasonably Practicable?…

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• System Based Performance Standards Approach
• Human Factors – Reactions to Emergencies
• Failure Penalty Modelling for Ultimate Strength
• Gas Explosion Engineering Joint Industry Project (GEEJIP)
• Development of Ignition Hazard Model
• Integrated System for Analysis of Resistance of…

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• Approach to the USA Balancing Prescriptive Requirements & Operator
• A New Look at Blast Wall Capacities
• Fire & Blast Analysis: Concerns for FPSOs
• Crude Oil Fire Deluge Tests
• Jet Fires Impacting on Flat Surfaces
• Phase 2 Update
• Hazards XII

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• European Communities, Directorate-General XII Evaluation of Models Gas Explosions (MEGGE)
• ISO - Offshore Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries - Offshore Structures
• Designing for Ill-Defined Accidental Loads?
• Are HRD Systems worth a closer look?
• HRD Explosion Mitigation
• EC…

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• The Importance of Consistent Data
• Norwegian Safety Initiative
• Explosion & Fire Design Guidance
• Structural Response to Gas Explosions: Control of Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis
• Is Explosion Response Analysis That Simple?
• A Rational Approach to Fire Consequence…

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• Membrane Type Blast Walls
• Results of the Merge Project
• Offshore Firefighting Onshore
• Water Mist Fire Suppression
• More Leaks Equals Greater Safety??
• To Extinguish or not to Extinguish

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• Design Management Guidelines for Explosion and Fire Engineering
• An Update on Field Modelling of Pool Fires
• The Fire Resistance of Aluminium
• Shell - Jet & Pool Fire Tests
• Fires on the Sea Surface
• ERA Conferences - Offshore Structural Design against Extreme Loads
• Offshore…

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• Alternative Materials: Fire & Blast Response
• Alternative Materials: Design Guides
• Article R74 - ERRATA
• Blast Wall Specifications
• Phase 2 Update
• Kuwait Scientific Mission
• UKELG Meeting
• Interflam ‘93
• Impact and Explosion - Analysis and Design
• The Droplet Size Debate…
• Large Scale…

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• OSH-Offshore
• Sprinklers Versus Deluge
• Is Passive Fire Protection Data Adequate?
• Determining The Response of Protected Steel to Fire Loading
• New Findings on the Effectiveness of Relief Panels and Louvre Panels
• Offshore Loss Prevention: A Systematic Approach - Conference Review

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• Three Views of QRA
• Interim Guidance Notes ERRATA
• How Useful are Fire Models?
• Response Analysis of Topside Structures
• Validated Computer-Based Fire Modelling
• Steel & Composite Beams Exposed to Fire
• Phase 2 Update
• Materials and Design Against Fire
• The Value of Automatic…

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• Assessment of structures subject to fire
• The Benefits of QRA
• Revision to Offshore Safety Case Regulations
• Passive or Active Fire Protection?
• Fire Testing for Offshore Structures
• FRS Request for Comment
• Should Contingency Factors be used for Blast Design of Topside Structures…

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• SDOF Elasto-Plastic Analysis
• A Few Thoughts on QRA
• Penetrations Through Fire & Blast Walls
• Offshore Application of FRP
• Phase II Update
• HTC-32 Fire Protection Material
• Safety Awareness Syllabus, Darlene Torey - Hazards Forum
• Book Review "Structural Dynamics for the…

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• Draft Offshore Installations (Safety Case) Regulations 199-
• Interim Guidance Notes - Errata
• Intumescents - Their Use Offshore
• Louvre Systems
• The Merge Project
• Solvex
• Blast & Fire joint industry project-phase II update
• Hazards Forum Discussion, 11/3/92 - (see R13)
• Offshore…