Uncertainty propagation in quantitative risk assessment modeling for fire in road tunnels

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1454-1464

  Meng, Qiang ^a   Qu, Xiaobo ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; fuzzy sets; parameter uncertainty; quantitative risk assessment (QRA); road tunnel

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES; CONSEQUENCE ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION METHODS; EVENT TREE ANALYSIS; INDIVIDUAL RISKS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; RISK ATTITUDE; RISK INDICES; ROAD TUNNEL; SAFETY LEVEL; SINGAPORE; SOCIETAL RISKS; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES; TUNNEL SAFETY; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; FIRES; FUZZY SETS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; ROADS AND STREETS; TRANSPORTATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84871713133     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2190982     Document Type: Article

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