PLYMOUTH, Wash. - A Northwest Pipeline official said a pressure vessel rupture caused the March 31 natural gas explosion that injured five people and forced an evacuation at Plymouth in Eastern ...

This guide provides an overview of methods for estimating the characteristics of vapor cloud explosions, flash fires, and boiling-liquid-expanding-vapor explosions (BLEVEs) for practicing engineers.

PLYMOUTH, Wash. (AP) — A Northwest Pipeline official says a pressure vessel rupture caused the March 31 natural gas explosion that injured five people and forced an evacuation at Plymouth in Eastern ...

Booster 18 suffered an anomaly during gas system pressure testing that we were conducting in advance of structural proof ...

Footage from independent livestreams showed the lower section of the roughly 70‑meter‑tall booster suddenly crumpling and ...

Over the past 30 years or so, bioprocessing has grown at exponential rates from the early days of research-based companies springing from the Boston-area life sciences educational establishments to ...

All over the world, pressure vessels are being pressed into service beyond their design lifetimes. Advances in machine learning can lead to the deployment of increasingly reliable non-destructive ...

The CSB has released a “Factual Investigative Update” on the April 3, 2017, rupture of a pressure vessel at the Loy Lange Box Company that killed four people and left another in critical condition.