- Author
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Zhao, C. M.
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Lo, S. M.
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Lu, J. A.
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Fang, Z.
- Title
- Simulation Approach for Ranking of Fire Safety Attributes of Existing Buildings.
- Coporate
- City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Wuhan Univ., China
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 39,
No. 7,
557-579,
October 2004
- Keywords
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fire safety
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simulation
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uncertainty
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equations
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decision making
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high rise buildings
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residential buildings
- Identifiers
- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method; fire saety ranking; random consistency index RI; fundamental scale; content of goal, criteria and attributes; variance along the virtual scale; statistical information of the criteria level; frequency of each rank relative to the goal; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; ranking of fire safety criteria and attributes for high-rise residential buildings; frequency of each rank relative to means of escape and warning system (MoE); frequency of each rank relative to fire-resistant construction (FRC); frequency of each rank relative to means of access for fire fighting and emergency vehicle access (MoA); frequency of each rank relative to Fire Services Installation (FSI); frequency of each rank relative to building characteristics and management (BCM)