Building fire performance analysis / Robert W. Fitzgerald.
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Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ :
J. Wiley,
c2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Understanding deciding, communicating
- 2. Fire defenses
- 3. Basic concepts
- 4. The anatomy of building fires
- 5. A way of thinking
- 6. Framework for analysis
- 7. Prolog to applications
- 8. Design fires
- 9. Barriers and multiroom fires
- 10. Barrier performance
- 11. Detection and initial actions
- 12. Fire service manual suppression
- 13. Automatic sprinkler suppression
- 14. Putting it together : the L curve
- 15. Concepts in structural frame analysis
- 16. Smoke analysis
- 17. Building performance
- 18. Risk characterizations
- 19. Introduction to risk management
- 20. Prevent established burning
- 21. Decision making and communication
- App. A. Analytical foundations
- App. B. What about the numbers?
- App. C. The role of judgment in engineering evaluations
- App. D. Inspection report forms
- App. E. Fire safety evaluators.