Gas Explosion Chamber
The Explosion Chamber is 4.5m in cross-section and 9m long. With a flexible vent opening in the front face and varying levels of pipework congestion inside, this chamber can be used to provide overpressure pulses with peaks from 60mbar to 4bar and durations from 50msec to over 300msec.
With this level of flexibility, the chamber is well suited for testing the performance of blast resistant equipment and structures such as doors, fire walls, panels, passive fire protection etc. Test samples can be mounted as part or all of the back panel of the chamber, or mounted across the vent opening.
The chamber is also ideal for studying mitigations systems, such as water deluge at a representative scale.
Instrumentation
All explosions can be extensively instrumented to measure:
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Overpressure using transducers recorded on high speed data acquisitions systems
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Flame arrival times
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Response of structures to explosion loading using strain gauges, displacement transducers or accelerometers
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High speed cine or video coverage
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