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Fire performance standards and the problem of fire risk assessment

✍ Scribed by T. Z. Harmathy

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1980
Tongue: English
Weight: 409 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 0308-0501
DOI: 10.1002/fam.810040403

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is submitted that the development of a set of complementary performance test standards and of an algorithm for calculating from the test results the inherent potential of products for harm is the prerequisite of any progress towards a coherent fire risk assessment philosophy.

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