The development of RISK-NL V5.0 and its applications
conference paper
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.
The paper gives a description of the new features and the new possibilities are illustrated with a case study.
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.
The paper gives a description of the new features and the new possibilities are illustrated with a case study.
TNO Identifier
408875
Source title
34th Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board Seminar (DDESB), Portland, Oregon, USA, 13-15 July 2010
Pages
17 (Session 11.2)