| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Principles of Fire Risk Assessment in Buildings; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; 1 Introduction; PART I Simple Approach to Fire Risk Assessment; 2 What is Fire Risk Assessment?; 3 Fire Risk Assessment Based on Past Fire Experience; 4 Qualitative Fire Risk Assessment; 5 Quantitative Fire Risk Assessment; PART II Fundamental Approach to Fire Risk Assessment; 6 Fundamental Approach to Fire Risk Assessment; 7 Fire Growth Scenarios; 8 Fire Spread Probabilities; 9 Smoke Spread Scenarios; 10 Occupant Evacuation Scenarios; 11 Fire Department Response |
| Summary |
This book arrives at just the right time to facilitate understanding of performance-based fire risk assessment in buildings an integral part of the global shift in policy away from traditional prescriptive codes. Yung, an internationally recognised expert on the subject of fire risk assessment, introduces the basic principles and techniques that help the reader to understand the various methodologies that are currently in place or being proposed by different organisations. Through his illustration of basic principles and techniques he enables the reader to conduct their own fire risk assessm |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Fire risk assessment.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470714050 (electronic bk.) |
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0470714069 |
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0470854022 (cloth) |
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047085409X (paperback; alk. paper) |
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1282689363 |
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1613449151 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470714058 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470714065 |
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9780470854020 (cloth) |
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9780470854099 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9781282689367 |
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9781613449158 (electronic bk.) |
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(cloth) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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