UID:
almafu_9959327379102883
Format:
1 online resource (479 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
ISBN:
0470020075
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9780470020074
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0470020083
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9780470020081
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9781613449189
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1613449186
Content:
Fire 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.
Note:
Structure of the Fire Problem -- The place of fire safety in the community -- The fire safety system -- Review of some major fire and explosion disasters -- Requirements from public and private authorities for fire safety -- Quantifying Fire Safety -- Physical data -- Sources of statistical data -- Occurrence and growth of fire -- Life loss -- Property damage -- Performance of fire safety measures -- Methods of Measuring Fire Safety -- Deterministic fire safety modeling -- Model validation -- Point systems -- a single index -- Logic trees -- Stochastic fire risk modeling -- Fire safety concepts tree and derivative approaches -- Fire safety assessment in the process industries.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Evaluation of fire safety. Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, ©2004 ISBN 0471493821
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0470020083
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0470020083
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/0470020083
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