Evaluation of Fire Safety

by D. Rasbash, G. Ramachandran, B. Kandola, J. Watts, M. Law

Overview

• Examines key aspects of quantifying fire safety: property damage, performance of fire services/measures, fire safety modeling and verification, and stochastic modeling.
• Includes a quantitative approach to major fire and explosion disasters, demonstrating crucial faults.
• Covers real-life problems and applications.
• There is no other reference available on this subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471493822
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/19/2004
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	7.03(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

David Rasbash was a pioneer in the field of Fire Safety Engineering. Rasbash was a chemical engineer who graduated from Imperial College, London, during World War II. He began publishing and teaching about the evaluation of fire safety in the 1970s.

G. Ramachandran is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.

B. Kandola is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.

J. Watts is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.

M. Law is the author of Evaluation of Fire Safety, published by Wiley.

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Table of Contents

Preface.

PART I: STRUCTURE OF THE FIRE PROBLEM.

1 The place of fire safety in the community.

2 The fire safety system.

3 Review of some major fire & explosion disasters.

4 Requirements from public and private authorities for fire safety.

PART II: QUANTIFYING FIRE SAFETY.

5 Physical data.

6 Sources of statistical data.

7 Occurrence and growth of fire.

8 Life loss.

9 Property damage.

10 Performance of fire safety measures.

PART III: METHODS OF MEASURING FIRE SAFETY.

11 Deterministic fire safety modeling.

12 Model Validation.

13 Point systems - a single index.

14 Logic trees.

15 Stochastic fire risk modeling.

16 Fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches.

17 Fire safety assessment in the process industries.

Index.