- Author
- Budnick, E. K.
- Title
- Quantitative Fire Hazards Analysis--An Overview of Needs, Methods and Limitations.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- 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 | fire protection engineering | mathematical models | quantitative analysis | 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.