The modeling of fire spread in buildings by Bayesian network

Fire spread modeling is very important to fire safety engineering and to insurance industries involved in fire risk–cost analysis of buildings. In this paper, the Bayesian network is introduced. The directed acyclic graph of a fire spread model is presented. When the fire ignition location is known,...

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Published inFire safety journal Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 901 - 908
Main Authors Cheng, Hao, Hadjisophocleous, George V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2009
Elsevier
Subjects
Applied sciences
Bayesian network
Building
Building technical equipments
Buildings
Buildings. Public works
Computation methods. Tables. Charts
Exact sciences and technology
Fire behavior of materials and structures
Fire protection
Fire spread
Static model
Structural analysis. Stresses
Building
Fire spread
Static model
Bayesian network
Office building
Fire development
Fires
Example
Probability
Bayes network
Modeling
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Summary:Fire spread modeling is very important to fire safety engineering and to insurance industries involved in fire risk–cost analysis of buildings. In this paper, the Bayesian network is introduced. The directed acyclic graph of a fire spread model is presented. When the fire ignition location is known, the fire spread model based on the Bayesian network from the compartment of fire origin to another compartment can be built, and the probability of fire spread can be calculated by making use of the joint probability distribution of the Bayesian network. A specific application for an office building is presented for a case without sprinkler and one with sprinkler installed.
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ISSN:0379-7112
DOI:10.1016/j.firesaf.2009.05.005