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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A factor assigned to each structure according to its occupancy category as prescribed in Table 35. 3. 1 and ASCE/SEI 7, Table 1-1.
Industry:Fire safety
A factor that accounts for deviations of the actual load from the nominal load, for uncertainties in the analysis that transforms the load into a load effect, and for the probability that more than one extreme load will occur simultaneously.
Industry:Fire safety
A factor that accounts for deviations of the actual strength from the nominal strength and the manner and consequences of failure (also called strength reduction factor).
Industry:Fire safety
A factor that accounts for the degree of hazard to human life and damage to property.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of conductors or cables inside a nonmetallic, smooth wall conduit with a circular cross section.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of one or more conductors insulated with a highly compressed refractory mineral insulation and enclosed in a liquid-tight and gastight continuous copper or alloy steel sheath.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of one or more conductors, each individually insulated and enclosed in a loose fit, nonmetallic flexible conduit as an integrated gas spacer cable rated 0 through 600 volts.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of one or more insulated circuit conductors with or without optical fiber members enclosed in an armor of interlocking metal tape, or a smooth or corrugated metallic sheath.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of one or more optical fibers having an overall covering.
Industry:Fire safety
A factory assembly of two or more insulated conductors enclosed within an overall nonmetallic jacket.
Industry:Fire safety