| Download | - View accepted manuscript: Performance criteria used in fire safety design (PDF, 1.2 MiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-5805(98)00096-X |
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| Author | Search for: Hadjisophocleous, G. V.1; Search for: Bénichou, N.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Abstract | This paper presents the performance criteria that are currently used by fire protection engineers in designing fire safety systems in buildings. These include deterministic and probabilistic design criteria as well as safety factors. The deterministic criteria relate mainly to life safety levels, fire growth and spread levels, fire exposure and structural performance. The probabilistic criteria focus on the incident severity and incident likelihood. Finally, the inclusion of safety factors permits a conservative design and allows for a smaller margin of error due to uncertainty in the models and the input data. |
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| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NRC number | NRCC 40662
NRC-IRC-7582 |
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| NPARC number | 20338290 |
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| Export citation | Export as RIS |
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| Record identifier | b2afe2f6-917d-4eca-bb3a-8a6ef0c2dcbd |
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| Record created | 2012-07-19 |
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| Record modified | 2020-03-20 |
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