The Development of Risk-NL V5.0 and Its Applications

Abstract

Risk-NL is a Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) software tool for the external safety of ammunition storage sites. The Netherlands MoD has asked TNO to upgrade Risk-NL with improved models that have recently been developed, and a new user interface. The new models implemented in Risk-NL v5.0 are more physics-based, and have a higher level of detail resulting in a better quantitative discrimination of risks for different scenarios. The most important improvement is the possibility to distinguish between debris from walls and the roof of RC magazines, and between debris and primary fragments from cased ammunition. Also the new model for window failure is a major improvement and has a more sound basis than its predecessor. The combination of the new user interface and the new models in Risk-NL v5.0 give unique possibilities to analyze risk, and to investigate options for risk reduction. Risk-NL v5.0 also provides possibilities for optimization in the design of new types of magazines and ammunition storage sites.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA532175

Entities

People

  • Martijn Van Der Voort
  • Philip Van Dongen
  • Reinier Sterkenburg
  • Ruud Van Amelsfort

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Ammunition
  • Blast
  • Blast Loads
  • Blast Waves
  • Case Studies
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Explosion Effects
  • Explosions
  • Explosives
  • Free Field
  • Periodicals
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Thermal Radiation
  • User Interface

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Explosive Engineering.