Fire Protection & Safety Books

1-10 of 38 results in Subjects › Built Environment › Building and Construction › Fire Protection & Safety

1. 

   Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety

   By Ganapathy Ramachandran, David A. Charters

   Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a "Responsible Person" and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements...

   December 2010 | 978-0-419-20790-0 | Hardback (Spon Press)
2. 

   Fire Safety and Security in Retail Premises: A Practical Guide for Owners, Managers and Responsible Persons (BR 508)

   A practical guide to assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of retail premises. It identifies the important issues, and encourages an approach in which good fire safety and security practice become familiar and normal to employees....

   October 2010 | 978-1-84806-145-3 | Paperback (BRE Press)
3. 

   Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety

   Edited by Jean Marc Franssen, Venkatesh Kodur, Raul Zaharia

   Structural design in fire conditions is conceptually similar to structural design in normal temperature conditions, but often more difficult because of internal forces induced by thermal expansion, strength reduction due to elevated temperatures, and numerous other factors. In recent years...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-54828-1 | Hardback (CRC Press)
4. 

   Combustion Phenomena: Selected Mechanisms of Flame Formation, Propagation and Extinction

   Edited by Jozef Jarosinski, Bernard Veyssiere

   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...

   February 2009 | 978-0-8493-8408-0 | Hardback (CRC Press)

5. Advances in Fire Retardant Materials

   Edited by A.R. Horrocks, D. Price

   This book offers an important updated to Horrocks and Price’s Fire retardant materials. It provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the advances that have occurred in fire science in relation to materials. The manufacture of fire retardant materials is an active area of research, the...

   2008 | 978-1-4200796-1-6 | Hardback (CRC Press)

6. Fire Protection: Systems and Response

   By Robert Burke

   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...

   2007 | 978-1-56670-622-3 | Hardback (CRC Press)
7. 

   Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety: Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2007 (ESREL 2007), Stavanger, Norway, 25-27 June 2007

   Edited by Terje Aven, Jan Erik Vinnem

   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...

   2007 | 978-0-415-44786-7 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)

8. Flammability testing of materials used in construction, transport and mining

   Edited by Vivek B. Apte

   This authoritative reference work provides a comprehensive source of information for regulators, researchers and all those concerned with the flammability testing of materials over three industrial sectors: construction, transportation, and mining. The book uses practical application via the...

   2006 | 978-0-8493-3468-9 | Hardback (CRC Press)

9. Industrial Fire Protection Handbook, Second Edition

   By R. Craig Schroll

   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...

   2002 | 978-1-58716-058-5 | Hardback (CRC Press)

10. The Design and Layout of Fire Sprinkler Systems, Second Edition

    By Mark Bromann

    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...

    2001 | 978-1-58716-024-0 | Paperback (CRC Press)