Quantitative assessment of building fire risk to life safety

Risk Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 615-625

  Guanquan, Chu ^a,b   Jinhua, Sun ^b  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGHWAY MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Building fires; Life safety; Markov chain; Risk assessment; Time dependent event tree

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; MARKOV PROCESSES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK PERCEPTION; SMOKE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING FIRES; EVENT TREES; FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM; LIFE SAFETY; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

BUILDING; FIRE; MARKOV CHAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CALCULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKE; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 45349094781     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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