Compartment fire risk analysis by advanced Monte Carlo simulation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2381-2390

  Au, Siu Kui ^a   Wang, Zhi Hua ^b   Lo, Siu Ming ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire risk; Monte Carlo method; Reliability; Subset Simulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPARTMENT FIRE; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROBABILITY INTEGRALS; SUBSET SIMULATION;

FIRES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIRES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIRE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 34547503605     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2006.11.024     Document Type: Article

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