Evaluation of Fire Safety
Published on 17. February 2004
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-471-49382-2 (ISBN)
Description
* Examines key aspects of quantifying fire safety: property damage, performance of fire services/measures, fire safety modeling and verification, and stochastic modeling.
* Includes a quantitative approach to major fire and explosion disasters, demonstrating crucial faults.
* Covers real-life problems and applications.
* There is no other reference available on this subject.
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Product info
gebunden
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1128 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-49382-2 (9780471493822)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
D. Rasbash | G. Ramachandran | B. Kandola
Evaluation of Fire Safety
E-Book
03/2004
Wiley
€127.99
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Persons
David Rasbash was a pioneer in the field of Fire Safety Engineering. Rasbash was a chemical engineer who graduated from Imperial College, London, during World War II. He began publishing and teaching about the evaluation of fire safety in the 1970s.
G. Ramachandran is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
B. Kandola is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
J. Watts is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
M. Law is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
G. Ramachandran is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
B. Kandola is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
J. Watts is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
M. Law is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.
Content
Preface.
PART I: STRUCTURE OF THE FIRE PROBLEM.
1 The place of fire safety in the community.
2 The fire safety system.
3 Review of some major fire & explosion disasters.
4 Requirements from public and private authorities for fire safety.
PART II: QUANTIFYING FIRE SAFETY.
5 Physical data.
6 Sources of statistical data.
7 Occurrence and growth of fire.
8 Life loss.
9 Property damage.
10 Performance of fire safety measures.
PART III: METHODS OF MEASURING FIRE SAFETY.
11 Deterministic fire safety modeling.
12 Model Validation.
13 Point systems - a single index.
14 Logic trees.
15 Stochastic fire risk modeling.
16 Fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches.
17 Fire safety assessment in the process industries.
Index.