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Risk analysis and fire safety engineering

Frantzich, Håkan LU (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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Monte Carlo, Risk evaluation, Risk analysis, Event tree, Fire, Evacuation
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Fire Safety Journal
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31
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4
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313 - 329
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Elsevier
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0379-7112
DOI
10.1016/S0379-7112(98)00021-6
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English
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  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Fire Safety Journal}},
  title        = {{Risk analysis and fire safety engineering}},
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  doi          = {{10.1016/S0379-7112(98)00021-6}},
  volume       = {{31}},
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