In urban and rural areas near to an industrial plant it is fundamental the analysis of health
impacts associated with accidental release of chemicals in the environment, as an accident …

One of the main triggering causes of industrial accidents is associated with the occurrence of
natural events, like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, or lightning storms. These …

Quantitative risk analysis (QRA) of industrial facilities has to take into account multiple
hazards threatening critical equipment. Nevertheless, engineering procedures able to …

In 1999, two earthquakes in northwest Turkey caused heavy damage to a large number of
industrial facilities. This region is the most industrialized in the country, and heavy damage …

A newly developed technique is presented to estimate site specific seismic failure
frequencies of several types of storage tanks. Seismic failure is a failure event triggered by …

Earthquake damage in recent decades has revealed that storage tanks are one of the most
vulnerable components in petrochemical and oil processing plants. Damage to tanks …

Several accidents occurred in the last decades evidenced that the impact of seismic events
in industrial plants may trigger accidental scenarios involving the release of relevant …

Cylindrical steel above ground tanks extensively used in oil refinery complexes and oil
depots in Iran. Average capacity of this kind of tanks is about 20,000 kl with diameter of …

During the last decades, there has been a growing concern in the chemical and
petrochemical industry regarding losses of storage materials caused by natural phenomena …

The experience of several failures of equipment in industrial plants due to earthquake has
shown that incidental scenarios like explosion, fire or hazardous release can occur. In Italy …