Hardcover. 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. Newsworthy 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Evaluation of Fire Safety (Hardcover)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0471493821
ISBN 13: 9780471493822
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: new

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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.

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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