Description
Book SynopsisNewsworthy disasters, such as fires and explosions in buildings housing hazardous materials, have focused attention as never before on methods of evaluating and controlling hazards. In the first coherent treatment of the subject, this title details the application of hazard and risk analysis to fire safety.
Table of ContentsPreface.
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.
