• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.44-53
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• 2015

This study is a survey research to improve the fire-fighting ambulance interior design safer and more efficient to identify the type of structure and functional problems 119 ambulance. When the paramedics and four degrees to over 755 people modify the target report and related literature on the future development of an ambulance for patient safety at the 2007 British National Patients Safety Agency (NPSA) and was used as a complementary tool. General characteristics questionnaire was composed of items for your design improvements for ambulance promote safety and efficiency. The data were collected by distributing a questionnaire e-mail or in person. The collected data were processed using the SPSS 20.0 statistical program, the general characteristics as frequency analysis, percentage, ambulance interior design improvement-related items were analyzed using the chi-square verified. As a result, this research elicited that vans converted fire ambulance cars have a problem with the narrow interior space and truck converted fire ambulance cars should be comfortable to drive in ride quality. In addition, we also found that the improvement of paramedics treatment position and the paramedic's personnel safety belt are required. Based on these results, we propose that a number of improvements are needed in the fire-fighting ambulance car.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.64-64
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• 2011

최근 전 세계적으로 구제역, 화산, 지진재해 등 장기적이고 광역적인 재해 재난의 심각성을 반영하는 듯 다양한 기술개발과 재난관리 적용성에 관한 연구가 전개되고 있다. 그 가운데 인공위성에 대한 가치와 활용에 대한 기대치가 높아짐에 따라 국내외로 신속한 재난대응 및 광역적 피해지역에 대한 조기분석 등에 관한 다양한 지원체계구축에 대한 연구가 심화되고 있다. 국내에서도 재해 재난에 대한 인공위성의 활용성 및 실무적 대안마련에 대한 검토가 시작되고 있으며, 특히 재해시 영상의 확보 및 분석과 의사결정지원 등 재난관리 프로세스에 대한 정부부처의 활용방안 마련에 대한 기대가 높아지고 있는 가운데 재난총괄기관인 소방방재청은 국립방재연구소에 방재영상분석팀을 신설하였다. 2010년 1월 HAITI 지진피해, 2010년 12월 삼척 산불모니터링, 2011년 1월 포항 폭설피해 등의 재해 재난 분석을 통해 의사결정지원체계를 구축하고 있다. 위성영상 분석기술은 국외기관과 비슷한 실정이나, 본질적으로는 영상촬영 및 수급문제 해소에 있다고 하겠다. 현재, 지구관측센터(KEOC) 및 한국항공우주연구원에서도 이와 같은 수급체계에 대한 문제의식을 공유하고 있다는 점은 재난관리업무 담당자로서 고무적이고 개선에 대한 희망이 밝다. 향후 본 연구를 기반으로 우리나라 재난관리업무에 있어 위성영상을 기반으로 하는 선제적이고 과학적인 재난관리기법이 개발되고 방재분야의 위성영상활용의 위상이 높게 제고 되었으면 한다. 이와 관련하여 본 논문에서는 현재 전 세계적으로 운영되고 있는 인공위성들을 대상으로, 시 공간 해상도별 분포도를 작성하여 인공위성의 특성을 살펴보았다. 특히, 한국항공우주연구원과 소방방재청에서 2010년 10월에 가입한 국제재해관리를 위한 위성영상활용 협력기구인 International Charter에서 재해 재난관련 위성영상 분석 및 현황을 조사하여 재난유형별 활용성을 검토하였다. 마지막으로 조사 분석된 내용을 토대로 위성영상을 통한 재난관리 분야에 적합한 업무 프로세스를 도출하였다. 또한, 재해발생지역에 대한 신속한 위성영상의 확보와 정량적 피해규모 파악에 따른 응급 복구지원이 가능한 대응전략에 대해서 검토하였다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.379-393
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• 2015

The fire damage has been increased as the frequency of fire incidence decreases with increasing in death and economic loss. Local governments are dependent on the activities of fire-fighters with crude preparedness and prevention for fire incidence. Most of researches on fire safety have focused on descriptive statistics which show general trends in fire incidence and condition. Here we tried to make a mutual causal model for fire damage, to make three big hypotheses with laying three small hypotheses under each big hypothesis. Five years statistics from public domains in the form of hardcopy or softcopy were collected and fifteen independent variables were selected to explain the number of death, the number of fire incidence and the amount of economic loss from fire incidence. The significances of statistics are different among the regional characteristics. The hypotheses were partially rejected and the meanings of rejected factors will refresh the tentative prejudice. It is necessary to revise the principle that the number of population and size of area are regarded as the most important criteria to allocate resources for fire control and to have the criteria flexible with results of our research such as the number of the weak to fire disaster.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.185-195
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• 2017

In recent years, unexpected bridge fire accidents have increased because of augmenting the number of traffic volumes and hazardous materials by the increment in traffics and distribution business. Furthermore, in accordance with the effort of using the under space of bridges, the ratio of occupied by combustible materials like oil tanker or lorry has been increased. As a result, the occurrence of bridge fire has been growing drastically. In order to mitigate the accident of bridge fire, risk assessment of bridge fire has been studied, however, practical risk models considering safety from users' viewpoints were scarce. This study represented quantitative risk assessment model applicable to national road bridges in Korea. The primary factors with significant impacts on bridge fire accidents was chosen such as clearance height, materials of bridges, arrival time of fire truck and fire intensity. The selected factors were used for Fire Dynamics Simulation (FDS) and the peak temperature calculated by FDS in accordance with the fire duration and fire intensity. The risk assessment model in bridge fire reflected the FDS analysis results, the fire damage criteria, and the grade of fire truck arrival time was established. Response plans for bridge fire accidents according to the risk assessment output has been discussed. Lastly, distances between bridges and fire stations were calculated by GIS network analysis. Based on the suggested assessment model and methodology, sample bridges were selected and graded for the risk assessment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.56-61
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• 2023

The plant is an important facility as a infrastructure, and ensuring safety against possible accidents such as gas leaks and explosions must be considered in the design. However, there is little study on explosion pressure in plants for reasons such as economic feasibility, and overpressure data on this field is insufficient. In this study, an experimental design plan considering the explosion scenario that may occur in the plant was presented, and the explosion pressure was confirmed through an explosion experiment. Hydrogen-methane mixed gas was used as a combustible material, and the effect of confinement and congestion on overpressure was studied. The effect of overlapping pressure waves during deflagration and the turbulence effect by congested pipes are discussed. The results of this study can be used as input data in various safety designs.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.585-588
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• 2009

건물내의 열을 온도 센서를 통해 모니터링함으로써 발생되는 온도 데이터의 양은 온도 센서의 정밀도가 향상되고 센서의 수가 증가함에 따라 기존의 화재감시시스템이나 공기조화냉동시스템에서 발생하는 것과는 비교할 수 없이 증가하게 된다. 이 과정에서 화재를 감시하기 위하여 유용한 데이터만을 처리해 데이터베이스화하고, 화재 예방에 활용하기 위해 온도 데이터의 효과적인 처리 방법을 연구함으로써 보다 작은 시스템의 구축으로도 안정적인 화재 감시 및 예방이 가능한 방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.3815-3823
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to closely examine the influence of field-shock experience and post traumatic stress perceived by fire officials upon somatic symptoms and coping methods. A survey was carried out targeting 362 male and female fire officials who are working at fire safety centers where are located in Gangwon-do Province. The collected data were used SPSS 19.0 and AMOS 19.0 for Windows. It carried out frequency analysis, factor analysis for validity and reliability, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation. For hypothesis verification, an analysis was carried out by using structural equation modeling. All the statistical analyses were set for the significant level in p<.05. The results are as follows. First, the perceived field-shock stress was indicated to have influence upon post traumatic stress. Second, the perceived field-shock stress was indicated to have influence upon somatic symptom. Third, the perceived field-shock stress was indicated to have influence upon a coping method. Fourth, the post traumatic stress was indicated to have influence upon somatic symptom. Fifth, the post traumatic stress was indicated to have influence upon a coping method. Sixthly, the somatic symptom was indicated to have influence upon a method of coping with stress.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.166-176
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• 2021

Due to urbanization and industrialization, the importance of large-scale fire prevention, management and measures is increasing day by day. However, the fire site arrival rate in Golden Time, which is a factor that can minimize large-scale fire damage, of Pohang, a large city with a population of over 500,000, is relatively low. So additional fire fighting power deployment and infrastructure investment are required. However, as budget and manpower are limited, it is necessary to selectively deploy fire fighting power and invest in infrastructure. Therefore, this study attempted to present a fire damage rating that can compare the level of fire damage, which is an index that can help selectively provide fire fighting services in Pohang and make related decisions. For the index, the OD cost matrix was used to predict fire vulnerable areas with a high probability of increasing the fire scale in the event of a fire. Also fire damage was measured by predicting the level of fire damage in the event of a fire according to population, building density, and access of fire trucks. It is expected that the fire damage rating will be able to help in various decisions related to fire fighting service deployment and services not only in Pohang city, but also in other regions.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.76-85
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• 2003

In this study, we write down the definitions, their causes and the techniques of analysis as a theoretical consideration of common cause failures, and investigate the limitation and the importance of the common cause failures by applying to the analysis on the fire protection as a representative safety facility. As you can know in the reliability analysis, most impressive cause is the malfunctions of pumping operations; especially the common cause failure of two pumps is dominant. In other words, it is possible to assess system-reliability as twice as actual without CCF From these, CCF is extraordinarily important and the results are highly dependent on the CCF factor. And although it would increase with multiple installations, the reliability are not defined as linear with those multiplications. In addition, the differences in results due to the models for analysis are not significant, whereas the various sources of data produce highly different results. Therefore, we conclude that the reliabilities are dependent on the quality of the usable data much better than the variety of models. As a result, the basic and engineering device for the preventions of CCF of the multiple facilities is to design it as reliably as to design the fire-water pump. That is to say, we must assess those reliabilities using PFD whether they are appropriate to SIL (Safety Integrity Level) which is required for the reliability in SIS (Safety Instrumented System). The result of the analysis on the reliability of the fire-water supply with CCF shows that PFD is 3.80E-3, so that it cannot be said to be designed as safely as in the level of SIL5. However, without CCF, PFD is 1.82E-3 which means that they are designed as unsafely as before.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.95-104
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to investigate differences in initial patient states based on types of burn accidents in the pre-hospital stage. 1,223 items of transfer data from burn accidents of Gyeonggi-do emergency medical services in 2013 were used. Burn accidents were most common in children younger than 10 years old (26.0%) and happened mostly at home (51.3%). Patient states by burn type were stable on average, but burns by electricity showed 10.7% of awareness condition U (Unresponsive), which was higher than that of the other burn types. Initial patient states for this type were shown to be serious, unlike other burn types, with temperatures of $35.90^{\circ}C$ and third degree burn depth (39.28%). Understanding initial patient states based on burn type is necessary in order to do effective approach in the pre-hospital stage.