ABSTRACT

This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources.

As all required knowledge for Probability and Statistics for Fire Engineering is included in the preliminary chapters, the book is suitable for teaching Fire Engineering components in a wide range of engineering courses for senior graduates and for postgraduate students of Fire Engineering. It will also serve as a comprehensive reference for professionals.

This book describes the theory and the models involved in risk analysis, and includes case studies of multiple fire scenarios. Building fire safety and human behavioural responses to these scenarios show the benefits of risk-based fire safety design.

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 4|4 pages

Beta reliability index

chapter 5|4 pages

The Monte Carlo method

chapter 6|9 pages

Event and fault trees

chapter 9|4 pages

Personal factors in a fire

chapter 11|12 pages

A stochastic fire growth model