Revised fire consequence models for offshore quantitative risk assessment

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 18, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 443-454

  Pula, Ravichandra ^a   Khan, Faisal I ^a   Veitch, Brian ^a   Amyotte, Paul R ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire consequence modeling; Offshore risk modeling; Quantitative risk assessment

Indexed keywords

COMBUSTION; FIRE HAZARDS; FLUXES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SMOKE; TOXICITY;

CATASTROPHE; FIRE CONSEQUENCE MODELING; OFFSHORE RISK MODELING; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 25444525875     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2005.07.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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