LEADER 03014nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9911019593003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786610274833 010 $a9780470020081 010 $a0470020083 010 $a9781280274831 010 $a1280274832 010 $a9781613449189 010 $a1613449186 010 $a9780470020074 010 $a0470020075 035 $a(CKB)111087027140058 035 $a(EBL)219710 035 $a(OCoLC)54768627 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11159002 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281122 035 $a(PQKB)10593518 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC219710 035 $a(Perlego)2759492 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027140058 100 $a20031030d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEvaluation of fire safety /$fD. Rasbash ... [et al.] 210 $aChichester, West Sussex, England ;$aHoboken, NJ $cJohn Wiley$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780471560289 311 08$a0471560286 311 08$a9780471493822 311 08$a0471493821 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEVALUATION OF FIRE SAFETY; 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 327 $a14 Logic trees15 Stochastic fire risk modeling; 16 Fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches; 17 Fire safety assessment in the process industries; Index; 330 $aFire safety is a major concern in many industries, particularly as there have been significant increases in recent years in the quantities of hazardous materials in process, storage or transport. Plants are becoming larger and are often situated in or close to densely populated areas, and the hazards are continually highlighted with incidents such as the fires and explosions at the Piper Alpha oil and gas platform, and the Enschede firework factory. 606 $aFire protection engineering 606 $aFire prevention 615 0$aFire protection engineering. 615 0$aFire prevention. 676 $a628.9/22 701 $aRasbash$b D$01839881 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911019593003321 996 $aEvaluation of fire safety$94419271 997 $aUNINA