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Internal blast is the concussion effect of pressure rise caused by rapid combustion of fuel dispersed within a confined volume of air. Internal blast can be quite damaging, or even disastrous. Examples include destruction of grain elevators by grain dust explosions, loss of life in coal mine explosions, destruction of buildings as a result of natural gas leakage, and perhaps some of the unexplained losses of “empty” petroleum tankships at sea.
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Kinney, G.F., Graham, K.J. (1985). Internal Blast. In: Explosive Shocks in Air. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86682-1_9
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