D. Rasbash, G. Ramachandran, B. Kandola

Evaluation of Fire Safety

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Newsworthy disasters, such as fires and explosions in buildings housing hazardous materials, have focused attention as never before on methods of evaluating and controlling hazards. In the first coherent treatment of the subject, Evaluation of Fire Safety details the application of hazard and risk analysis to fire safety. Featuring quantification methods that are developed and then applied, the book explains quantitatively how to make improvements in fire safety in conjunction with costs.

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_ 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1078g
• ISBN-13: 9780471493822
• ISBN-10: 0471493821
• Artikelnr.: 11097068

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.