- Author
- Yuen, W. W. | Chow, W. K.
- Title
- New Method of Assessing Uncertainties in Designing Building Fire Safety Provisions.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Santa Barbara Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon
- Journal
- International Journal on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes, Vol. 6, No. 2, 78-86, 2004
- Keywords
- building design | fire safety | uncertainty | architecture | Monte Carlo method | fire damage | fire detection systems | sprinklers | probability | heat release rate | design
- Identifiers
- Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes (EPBFC); probabilistic framework for fire safety provisions design; determination of probability distribution of 'elemental' parameters; list of the elemental parameters and the associated probability distribution used in the design of a thermal fire detection system