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Author
Beck, V.
Title
CESARE-RISK: A Tool for Performance-Based Fire Engineering Design.
Coporate
Victoria University of Technology, Australia
Book or Conf
Pacific Rim Conference and Second (2nd) International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods. Proceedings. International Code Council and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). May 3-9, 1998, International Code Council, Birmingham, AL, Maui, HI, 319-330 p., 1998
Keywords
performance based codes | fire safety | fire protection engineering | fire codes | risk assessment | event logic tree | fire growth | smoke spread | human behavior | evacuation | fire departments | failure
Identifiers
Fire Code Reform Centre Limited (FCRC); CESARE-RISK model; building components and associated event condition; statistical properties for the time to untenable conditions for three fire types from Monte Carlo simulations; three realisations for each of the three fire types; three realisation representation of the duration to start direct evacuation (from the time of cue recognition); CESARE Response Model; three realisation representation for the time at which fire deparment completed arrival and set-up; time and probability of failure for selected structural members having a fire resistance of 60 minutes