- Author
- Rasbash, D. J. | Ramachandran, G. | Kandola, B. | Watts, J. M. | Law, M.
- Title
- Evaluation of Fire Safety.
- Coporate
- Universities of Manchester and Leeds, Manchester, UK Parsons Brinkerhoff Technologies, Ltd., Manchester, UK Fire Safety Institute, Cornwall, VT Arup Fire, London, England
- Book or Conf
- Evaluation of Fire Safety, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Hoboken, NJ, 491 p., 2004
- Keywords
- fire safety | evaluation | fire protection engineering | fire prevention | explosions | disasters | codes | standards | fire spread | fire losses | damage | validation | fire risk | industries | case histories
- Identifiers
- structure of the fire problem; quantifying fire safety; methods of measuring fire safety; place of fire safety in the community; review of some major fire and explosion disasters; requirements from public and private authorities for fire safety; physical data; sources of statistical data; occurrence and growth of fire; life loss; property damage; performance of fire safety measures; deterministic fire safety modeling; point systems: a single index; logic trees; stochastic fire risk modeling; fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches; fire safety assessment in the process industries; Marquee Showbar, Leisure Center, Summerland Fire, Douglas, Isle of Mann, August 2, 1973; Stardust Disco Club, Dublin, Ireland, February 1981; Kings Cross Underground Station, London, England, November 18, 1987; Bradford City football Ground, May 11, 1985; First Interstate Bank Building, Los Angeles, California, May 4, 1988; Dupont Plaza Hotel and Casino, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 31, 1986; Beverly Hills Supper Club, Southgate, Kentucky, May 28, 1977; Fairfield Old Peoples' Home, Edwalton, Nottinghamshire, England, December 15, 1974; Piper Alpha, North Sea, July 6, 1988; MV Betelgeuse (tanker) , Ireland, 1979; Ronan Point (apartment buildings) London, England, May 16, 1968