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Risk assessment and early warning systems for industrial facilities in seismic zones

Ernesto Salzano, Anita Garcia Agreda, Antonio Di Carluccio, Giovanni Fabbrocino

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Cilt: 94, Sayı: 10, 1577-1584, 2009/10

Industrial equipments and systems can suffer structural damage when hit by earthquakes, so that accidental scenarios as fire, explosion and dispersion of toxic substances can take place. As a result, overall damage to people, environment and properties increases. The present paper deals with seismic risk analysis of industrial facilities where atmospheric storage tanks (anchored or unanchored to ground), horizontal pressurised tanks, reactors and pumps are installed. Simplified procedures and methodologies based on historical database and literature data on natural-technological (Na-Tech) accidents for seismic risk assessment are discussed.

Equipment-specific fragility curves have been thus derived depending on a single earthquake measure, peak ground acceleration (PGA). Fragility parameters have been then transformed to linear probit coefficients in order to obtain reliable threshold values for earthquake intensity measure, both for structural damage and loss of containment. These threshold values are of great interest when development of active and passive mitigation actions and systems, safety management, and the implementation of early warning system are concerned.

The approach is general and can be implemented in any available code or procedure for risk assessment. Some results of seismic analysis of atmospheric storage tanks are also presented for validation.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Na-Tech risk; Earthquake; Risk assessment; Early warning system; Fragility curve

Elsevier Ltd.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.02.023

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