“…In another approach, van den Berg published new scaled overpressure curves (van den Berg, 2008) from a modeling of expansion controlled shock production, based on the assumption that the explosive evaporation of the liquid is as fast as the inertia of the expanding mixture (van den Berg et al, 2004(van den Berg et al, , 2006. In parallel to the modeling research, BLEVE experiments have been conducted over the years, and included a variety of fluids, vessel shape and scale, heating system, and intrumentation (Birk et al, 2006a,b;Birk and Vandersteen, 2006;Balke et al, 1999;Davison and Edwards, 2008;Giesbrecht et al, 1981;McDevitt et al, 1988McDevitt et al, , 1990Johnson et al, 1991;Stawczyk, 2003;Rirksomboon, 1997;van der Voort et al, 2012van der Voort et al, , 2013. An experimental database of BLEVE overpressure measurements is very important to validate overpressure models, and especially in the near field.…”