- Author
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Budnick, E. K.
- Title
- Quantitative Fire Hazards Analysis--An Overview of Needs, Methods and Limitations.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 11,
No. 1&2,
3-14,
July/September 1986
- Book or Conf
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers. Techniques of Quantitative Fire Hazard Analysis. March 1985.,
1986
- Keywords
-
fire hazards assessment
|
correlation
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fire protection engineering
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mathematical models
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quantitative analysis
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systems analysis
- Abstract
- This introductory paper provides an overview addresing such issues as the need for quantitative methods, the technical basis for development of these methods, and a review of the more popular methods availble to the fire protection community.