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Extensively using experimental and numerical illustrations, Combustion Phenomena: Selected Mechanisms of Flame Formation, Propagation, and Extinction provides a comprehensive survey of the fundamental processes of flame formation, propagation, and extinction. Taking you through the stages of...
Published February 11th 2009 by CRC Press
This guide provides practical information on assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of places of worship of all faiths....
Published January 15th 2009 by IHS BRE Press
This publication brings together current thinking on the behaviour of concrete in fire...
Published July 3rd 2008 by IHS BRE Press
The modern definition of firefighter no longer means “putting the wet stuff on the red stuff.” Emergency responders answer incidents ranging from fire alarm activations to elevator rescues and medical emergencies more often than full-blown fires. Consequently, responders increasingly interface with...
Published November 5th 2007 by CRC Press
Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety contains papers presented at the 16th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2007) in Stavanger, Norway, June 2007. Topics covered include: risk and reliability analysis methods; maintenance optimisation, and risk management. Special focus has been...
Published July 4th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
This guide provides engineers with an overview of the structural fire engineering design process and the techniques available to ensure the safe and economical fire design of concrete structures....
Published February 28th 2007 by IHS BRE Press
Fire Safety Engineering: Design of Structures provides guidance on the design structures which will withstand the effects of fire. It covers everything from design and design philosophies, regulatory control, the characteristics of natural fires, through to the properties of different materials at...
Published November 23rd 2006 by CRC Press
A guide to fire safety engineering for the novice and a reference source for experienced practitioners. Describes key topics and highlights the issues that must be considered at the design stage and by fire safety enforcers....
Published July 30th 2003 by IHS BRE Press
Fundamentally, fire prevention and control refer to systems and practices that increase a facility's ability to avoid fires, limit the development and spread of fires, and rapidly and effectively control fires. Changing safety codes and regulations along with recent technological advances have...
Published March 27th 2002 by CRC Press
Although effective fire sprinkler systems are crucial to public safety, for years, the designers of those systems had few published resources to reference and guide them through their design processes. The first edition of this book changed all that, and now The Design and Layout of Fire Sprinkler...
Published April 4th 2001 by CRC Press
