- Author
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Rasbash, D. J.
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Ramachandran, G.
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Kandola, B.
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Watts, J. M.
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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
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fire safety
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evaluation
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fire protection engineering
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fire prevention
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explosions
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disasters
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codes
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standards
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fire spread
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fire losses
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damage
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validation
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fire risk
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industries
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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