Risk analysis and fire safety engineering
(1998) In Fire Safety Journal 31(4). p.313-329- Abstract
- The paper demonstrates how two quantitative risk analysis (QRA) methods may be used to evaluate the risk to which the occupants of a building may be subjected if a fire breaks out. The methods (standard QRA and extended QRA) differ in terms of how uncertainties in the variables are considered. The extended QRA explicitly considers uncertainty as it is a part of the methodology. The standard QRA has to be complemented with a sensitivity analysis to fully provide insight into the uncertainty inherent in the scenario. Both methods are applied to a calculation example determining the societal risk for a hospital ward. The analyses are performed as Monte Carlo simulations.
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- author
- Frantzich, Håkan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1998
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Monte Carlo, Risk evaluation, Risk analysis, Event tree, Fire, Evacuation
- in
- Fire Safety Journal
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 313 - 329
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0007473910
- ISSN
- 0379-7112
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0379-7112(98)00021-6
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1d50831e-5ddd-4c34-b89b-f7482dafaaa6 (old id 783764)
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