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Shrapnel Analysis Capability Strengthens
Explosion Consequence Analysis
02-06-2026 - Advanced Analysis has expanded its capability to assess shrapnel hazards as part of a more complete explosion consequence assessment workflow.
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Shrapnel fragments can be generated from tanks, vessels, pipework, structural steel, glass, electrical equipment, or loose objects near an explosion. In industrial settings, these fragments may be projected at high velocity over significant distances, creating risks to personnel, buildings, and critical equipment.
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A key issue is that shrapnel can cause serious harm at overpressure levels much lower than those normally associated with direct blast lethality. Glass and other brittle materials may produce dangerous fragments at relatively low pressures, while larger fragments from tanks, vessels, or structural elements may retain enough momentum to damage buildings or equipment.
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Advanced Analysis uses explosion modelling with shrapnel trajectory and impact analysis using exploCFD outputs. The assessment uses explosion overpressure and velocity time histories, together with fragment size, material, thickness, geometry, launch angle, and aerodynamic behaviour, to estimate travel distance, trajectory, impact velocity, and damage potential.
The objective is to determine where shrapnel may go, what it may strike, and how severe the impact may be.
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This capability is particularly relevant for explosion studies involving tanks, pressure vessels, pipework, high-voltage electrical equipment, enclosed plant areas, and facilities where fragment impact may represent a credible escalation or personnel-safety hazard.
Advanced Analysis Launches HazardZone Express
for Rapid Hazardous Area Classification
25-01-2026 - Advanced Analysis is delighted to announce HazardZone Express, a new hazardous area classification tool that converts standard site PDFs into auditable zoning drawings and exportable compliance outputs in minutes.
The software is designed to streamline a workflow that is often split across CAD markups, separate registers, and manual cross-checking. In the newly uploaded tutorial for the product, users open a site layout PDF, select the applicable standard (including IEC-based workflows), then create gas or dust zones directly on the drawing using simple tools. Zone visualisation and legend-style outputs are built into the interface, supporting common zoning categories used in practice. Users can import lists of site equipment with their annotated markings, position the equipment on the plot plan and HazardZone Express determines whether each electrical item is compliant.
Beyond the drawing layer, HazardZone Express is presented as a reporting-first package: once zones are defined, the tool generates a marked-up PDF for audit and review, and exports a compliance register in CSV format so equipment lists can be tracked and actioned outside the app. Advanced Analysis has also confirmed that free trial licenses are now available for organisations that want to test the workflow on their own site plans before committing.
Independent Dust Hazard Study Completed for Regional Victorian Powder-Handling Facility
11-01-2026 - Advanced Analysis has recently completed a comprehensive combustible-dust hazard and consequence assessment for a large powdered-ingredient manufacturing site in regional Victoria, delivering an integrated package spanning site audit, dust hazard analysis, ignition-source assessment, hazardous area classification to AS/NZS 60079.10.2, electrical equipment suitability review, and high-fidelity consequence modelling using exploCFD.
The study examined dust-cloud formation during both routine operations and credible accidental spill events, extraction failures, and equipment malfunctions across key production and packing areas. The study demonstrated the effect of confinement on explosion overpressure and also identified ignition pathways requiring active control, such as hot surface temperatures. The study delivered updated zoning logic, equipment compliance assessment and remediation pathways, and a practical risk-reduction roadmap, including targeted improvements to dust extraction performance, formalised preventive maintenance for dust and HVAC systems.
Structural Failure Risk in Sealed Buildings
08-08-2025 - Advanced Analysis recently completed a study on a fully enclosed chamber with minimal venting. The findings show that low overpressure, if sustained over time, can cause structural failure even when pressure remains below the design limit.
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In sealed environments, pressure forces act for longer and build up impulse, which can exceed structural capacity. Using exploCFD v10, our team simulated overpressure time histories and applied Pressure-Impulse (PI) curves to assess failure thresholds.
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This case highlights the importance of venting and structural design in enclosed spaces. exploCFD v10 includes built-in tools to model these scenarios and support engineers in assessing panel and wall vulnerability.
The fastest, easiest-to-use and most cost-effective consequence analysis software currently available
Gas Explosion
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exploCFD is one of the easiest-to-use consequence analysis tools for explosion modelling
Detailed Wall Overpressure
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Confined spaces and detailed wall overpressures are simulated in a fast, reliable and repeatable manner, displaying the superiority of exploCFD
Hydrogen Validation Cases
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exploCFD is the only process safety consequence analysis tool that allows you to run your own validation scenarios
Battery Energy Storage System
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Li-ion batteries are occasionally prone to failure, releasing toxic and flammable gases. exploCFD can model jet fires and overpressures from a developing internal explosion
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We provide specialist consulting and exploCFD software for analysing fires, explosions, and hazardous events across major industries
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We help clients investigate, model, and prevent explosions and fires through the following services:
FIRE and EXPLOSION CFD, HELIDECK and THERMAL PLUME
We have some of the best experts in Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD for fire and explosion consequence analysis, Thermal Plume Studies and Helideck studies.
FEA /
VESSEL CALCS
Finite Element Analysis FEA and other analysis to characterize structural response of platforms, concrete buildings and other structures to various loads including fires and explosions.
QRA/PARTS COUNT, BRA, and other SAFETY STUDIES
Our Consultants have extensive experience with safety studies for both onshore and offshore oil and gas production facilities. Our QRA's are simply carried out faster, are more accurate and cost less because we employ the latest automated parts count methodology.