Evaluation of Fire Safety

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.

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.