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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"fire safety"”.
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Decision Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering - Analysing Investments in Fire Safety
… methods to the evaluation of investments in fire safety was investigated, particularly with the aim of being able to suggest a method for analysing a specific investment in fire safety for a specific factory. Attention was directed above all at the handling of cases of large epistemic …
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Fire safety and interior textiles
… role of the interior designer in providing for fire safe interiors is an important one. The textile end-products they specify play an important part in the start and/or spread of interior fires. Furthermore, the rate of developments in textile testing and products makes it difficult for …
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Formal fire safety assessment of passenger ships
Fire has been a major cause of ship's accidents throughout maritime history. It is by far the most serious threat to life and the environment as passenger ships get larger and more sophisticated. It is also impossible to protect a passenger vessel against all hazards. Despite the fact that a …
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Uncertainty and Risk Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering
… occupants in, for example, a building in which a fire has broken out. The extended QRA considers the inherent uncertainty in the variables explicitly. The standard QRA does not consider the uncertainties in the variables and must be complemented by a sensitivity analysis or an uncertainty …
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Development of pyrolysis models of composite materials for fire safety engineering
… the suitability of ThermaKin for novel fire retarded samples, under different thermal and fire conditions. The thermal decomposition of materials was investigated using simultaneous thermal analysis technique (STA) coupled with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) at different …
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Fire safety risk model for a main vertical zone of a large passenger ship
… shed light on the everlasting issue of on-board fires, witha particular focus on large passenger ships, by proposing a fire risk model for a MainVertical Zone (MVZ). Historically, fire had and always has been a pressing accidenttype, along with flooding. Despite the regulatory effort, the total …
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Fire safety evaluation of multifunctional buildings - Special emphasis on antagonistic attacks and protection of sensitive areas
… new, not previously well analyzed problems for fire safety. A method for selection and evaluation of fire scenarios in multifunctional buildings has been developed. The evaluation method is based on the performance-based design approach, using scenario analysis, and accounts for specific …
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An investigation into data sharing between building information modelling and fire safety engineering, with potential applications to smart buildings
… and incompatibilities on building projects. For Fire Safety Engineering (FSE)which is a safety support discipline, BIM presents an opportunity of integrated iterative design checking and support in evolving fire safety requirements during the life cycle of a building. However, the current support …
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Using historic buildings as contemporary workplaces: An investigation into the conflicts between building conservation and contemporary requirements for fire safety and accessibility
… those aspects of the legislation that relate to fire safety and access for disabled people and examines the implications of these legal requirements for such buildings. The interplay and conflict between this legislation and the philosophy of building conservation is examined. The hypothesis of …
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Two computer-graphics variations (animated vs still) and their impact on the knowledge and performance of cognitive-behavioral skills: fire-safety training
… for relative effectiveness in the acquisition of fire emergency skills and attainment of knowledge, Each of the training groups was compared to a no-treatment control group. Performance on dependent measures was assessed prior to and immediately following training. Hypotheses predicted that the …
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Fire engineering in sustainable buildings: An Evaluation for the application of Performance Based Design in Abu Dhabi
… for the application of performance- based fire-engineering design with sustainable building designs. In addition, it builds a referral information base helping to build sustainable communities, where fire- related fatalities and risks mitigated. Identifying fire safety and sustainability …
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Hazards presented by pyrolysis and combustion products during laboratory experiments and real incidents
Heat, flame, smoke and fire gases are responsible for the vast majority of fire deaths and injuries and are all products of the chemical and physical processes that occur within fire. This is well known and supported by fire statistics but current fire safety does not directly consider these …
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The use of numerical optimisation techniques in computational fire engineering models: a study through evacuation modelling analyses
… in the transition process from prescriptive fire safety codes to performance-based ones over the last three decades. In fact, such models became also useful tools in different tasks within fire safety engineering field, such as fire risks assessment and fire investigation. However, there are …
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Evacuation Modelling of Mixed-Ability Populations in Fire Emergencies
… that a significant percentage of fatalities in fires have suffered from some kind of disability. In this context 'disability' relates to a person's physical or mental condition that impinges on their ability to react and move promptly in an emergency. Various evacuation modelling techniques are …
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Structural Assessment of Glued-Laminated Timber Columns Subjected to Real Fires
This thesis investigates the performance and post-fire structural integrity of glued-laminated (glulam) columns when exposed to real fires. The primary objective of the Mass Timber Demonstration Fire Test Program (MTDFTP) in Ottawa was to conduct large-scale fire tests to explore construction fire …
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Perspectives on effectiveness: what works in a juvenile fire awareness and intervention program?
Deliberate lighting of fires by juveniles is both a public health concern and a community issue. This collaborative multiagency project aimed to establish best practice guidelines for child and youth firesetter programs in Australia. The study proceeded in two parts. Firstly, the practices and …
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Fire Scenario Development for South African Hospitals
Hospital fires continue to present a serious threat to life safety, particularly in developing countries such as South Africa (SA), where outdated infrastructure, limited maintenance, and unreliable fire protection systems compromise effective fire safety management. Hospitals are uniquely …
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Image based analysis of visibility in smoke laden environments
… For many years, researchers and engineers in fire safety have criticized the inadequacy of existing theory in describing the effects such as colour, viewing angle, environmental lighting etc. on the visibility of an emergency sign. In the current study, the author has raised the fundamental …
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