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The risk of fire occurring in building compartment – what are the consequences if it is assumed to be time-independent

Publication date: 26.09.2014

Technical Transactions, 2013, Budownictwo Zeszyt 3-B (9) 2013, pp. 43 - 51

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.063.3971

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Mariusz Maślak
Cracow University of Technology
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The risk of fire occurring in building compartment – what are the consequences if it is assumed to be time-independent

Abstract

The acceptance in advanced fire safety analysis of the formal model according to which the probability of fire occurrence is assumed as time-independent leads to the conclusion that random fire episodes in considered building compartment can be described by the formalism of a Poisson process. In the presented paper some consequences of such adoption are presented and widely discussed as well as the foundations are determined of the equivalence between this probability and a conditional failure rate, which is interpreted as a process intensity parameter.

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Information: Technical Transactions, 2013, Budownictwo Zeszyt 3-B (9) 2013, pp. 43 - 51

Article type: Original article

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The risk of fire occurring in building compartment – what are the consequences if it is assumed to be time-independent

English:

The risk of fire occurring in building compartment – what are the consequences if it is assumed to be time-independent

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3592-429X

Mariusz Maślak
Cracow University of Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3592-429X Orcid
All publications →

Cracow University of Technology

Published at: 26.09.2014

Article status: Open

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