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By
A. Hasofer, Former Professor of Statistics at the University of New South Wales.
V.R. Beck, Deputy President, Society of Fire Safety, The Institution of Engineers, Australia.
I.D. Bennetts, Professorial Fellow, CESARE Victoria University of Technology
Description
This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources.
As all required knowledge for
Probability and Statistics for Fire Engineering is included in the preliminary chapters, the book is suitable for teaching Fire Engineering
components in a wide range of engineering courses for senior graduates and for postgraduate students of Fire Engineering. It will also
serve as a comprehensive reference for professionals.
This book describes the theory and the models involved in risk analysis, and
includes case studies of multiple fire scenarios. Building fire safety and human behavioural responses to these scenarios show the benefits
of risk-based fire safety design.
Audience
Senior undergraduates, Fire engineering postgraduates, reference for fire engineers
Contents
General description of building fires, elements of probability theory; BETA reliability index; the Monte Carlo method; event and fault
trees; performance based optimal design; risk analysis of fire initiation; personal factors in a fire; probabilistic modelling of barrier
resistance; a stochastic fire growth model; a stochastic model of smoke spread; a stochastic model for human behaviour; performance assessment
of fire safety systems; stochastic modelling of fire brigade response; Case study: risk analysis of an assembly hall; Case study: the
building at 140 William Street
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 208 pages, publication date: NOV-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8156-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8156-X
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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