- Author
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Hadjisophocleous, G. V.
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Benichou, N.
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Tamim, A. S.
- Title
- Performance Criteria Used in the Design of Fire Protection Systems in Buildings.
- Coporate
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
FORINTEK Canada Corp.
- Book or Conf
- National Building Research Institute. CIB-ASTM-ISO-RILEM International Symposium, 3rd. Applications of the Concept in Building. Proceedings. Volume 2. December 9-12, 1997,
Tel Aviv, Israel,
1996
- Keywords
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fire protection
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building design
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safety
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building codes
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ignition
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flashover
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fire growth
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fire resistance
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fire spread
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life safety
- Identifiers
- performance design criteria; threshold values for ignition; heat flux range for ignitability; typical fire growh parameters; design fire growth rates and maximum heat release rates; failure criteria for elements of building construction; critical values of received radiation Irc; critical values of received radiation Irc; tenability criteria; limiting conditions for tenability caused by toxic products of combustion; limiting conditions for tenability caused by heat; limiting conditions for tenability caused by smoke obscuration; critical times for reaching untenable conditions; tolerability of risk; definitions of incident severity categories and incident likelihood ranges; risk ranking matrix