Total System Hazards Analysis for the Western Area Demilitarization Facility at Hawthorne Army Ammunition Plant. Priority 3 - Decontamination Building, Large Items Flashing Chamber, Driverless Tractor System, Offloading Dock, and Magazines. Volume 1. Summary Report and Appendices.

Abstract

This report contains the results of a hazards analysis of the Decontamination Building, Large Items Flashing Chamber, Driverless Tractor System, Offloading Dock and Magazines at the Western Area Demilitarization Facility (WADF) at Hawthorne, Nevada. The methodology used was a combination of failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) and fault tree analysis (FTA), with quantification accomplished through the use of a fault tree computer model. These techniques were described in the Priority 1 report and are repeated here in Appendix A. The hazards analysis that was conducted produced two types of results. First, the scenarios that can lead to a hazardous outcome were identified by constructing fault tree logic diagrams for each plant section. Such scenarios are chains of events or combinations of events that must occur together or in sequence to cause the outcome of concern.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA308038

Entities

People

  • Charles Heilker
  • Dwayne Eacret
  • Edmund Swider
  • Kim Mniszewski
  • Ronald Pape

Organizations

  • IIT Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter IED
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Air Intakes
  • Ammunition
  • Blast Loads
  • Blast Waves
  • Civil Engineering
  • Energetic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fault Tree Analysis
  • Frequency
  • High Pressure
  • High Temperature
  • Materials
  • Reliability

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering