• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

In this paper, we analysed the flame patterns and the electrical characteristics of the electric outlet which was fired at standby mode. The carbonized patterns indicated that the flame had spread about 50 cm to 70 cm. After the combustibles on wall started to burn, the temperature went up to about $300^{\circ}c$ in 150 sec. The flame formed ceiling jet and spread quickly. The tracking was generated at the shortest distance between two electrodes and the resistance was about 100$\Omega$ to 300$\Omega$ As the result of analysis using metallurgical microscope, the normal part of a blade holder showed amorphous structure, but the melted part of a blade holder damaged by tracking showed dendrite structure and void evenly. When the blade holder of damaged outlet was analyzed by SEM and EDX, we found that the structure and components of the normal part were different from those of melted part.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.57-63
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• 2004

We investigated heat properties of connection terminal in residual current protective devices(RCD) according to contact pressure for low voltage appliance. And we analyzed voltage and current waveform and oxide propagation when the poor-contact happened between terminal and wire. When contact pressure between terminal and connection wire was not applied, the heat was generated and an oxide was formed on the surface of the wire. The temperature of the insulation surrounding terminal was ascended sharply by poor-contact, micro-sparks and continuous arc sound happened in interior terminal. When the poor-contact by vibration occurred inner conductor of terminal and wire, an oxide was propagated on contact surface and the temperature was increased at 869℃. Thus, we found that the risk of electrical disaster is high in terminal and connection wire parts.

• The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.185-197
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• 2002

Today, the basic problem of functional safe management of Korean Disaster Control system was separately administrated 33 acts that are relating to safe management in 13 ministries. Because of the facts that the fire service is not provided practically, the control system and risk management for safe administration are not operated, the information can not be shared with each other, and the various laws have the lacks of linkage, the National Safe System was appeared unsteady. The roles and functions of fire service have started with restriction to operate structurally and institutionally, which operational structure of fire service is becoming weak. As a result, the federal and local fire organizations have not reached yet to the institutionalization and the local fire service agencies have bias with the task regarding the fire service because of the relation between organizational structure and the local fire agency. With the enforcement of the federal and local fire system, professionality and autonomy for making policy, and dealing with changes of fire service positively, the national fire service on the policy performance can be established. Promotion of research and development and education training to strengthen innovation in technology and competition in fire industry will contribute to the firmly establishment of control system to prevent from fire, flood, terror and national disaster. This article proposed that (a) the established law and administration, agency are required efforts to effectively operate fire service system; (b) the national fire service agency, national college of fire, national institute of science fire, and national fire service hospital should be early established to make firmly policy to operate effectively and practically. These kinds of innovational acts are known the best ways of operating solid policy of national fire service system.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.51-56
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• 2004

A fire outbreak in a reinforcement concrete structure looses the organism by the different contraction and expansion of hardened cement pastes and aggregate, and causes cracks by thermal stress, leading to the deterioration of the durability. So concrete reinforcement structure is damaged partial or whole structure system. Therefore diagnosis of deterioration is needed based on mechanism of fire deterioration in general concrete structures. Fundamental information and data on the properties of concrete exposed to high temperature are necessary for accurate diagnosis of deterioration. In this study, it was presented data for the accurate diagnosis and selection of repair and reinforcement system for the deteriorated concrete heated highly, various concrete such as standard design compressive strength, fine aggregate and admixture were exposed to a high temperature environment. And fundamental data were measured engineering properties such as explosive spatting, ultrasonic pulse velocity and compressive strength.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.83-90
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• 2017

If an overcurrent exceeding the rated value is applied to an electric wire, the temperature of the electric wire increases, and the electric wire covering deteriorates to cause a short circuit. The upper limit temperature of the wire varies according to the magnitude of the overcurrent. When a short circuit occurs at each upper temperature limit, a cooling speed difference occurs during the solidification process due to the temperature difference between the short circuit temperature and the wire surface temperature. At this time, the pattern characteristics of the dendritic structure formed on the molten cross section are different. In this study, the upper temperature limit, which varied according to the overcurrent magnitude, was measured. At the time a short circuit occurred, the second branch spacing (dendrite Arm Spacing : DAS) of the dendrite was analyzed and the numerical value was quantified. The experimental results showed that the upper temperature limit increases with the magnitude of the overcurrent, and that the second branch spacing increases with increasing wire temperature.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.19 no.1 s.57
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• pp.93-98
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• 2005

The purpose of this paper is to judge the damage cause of instrument transformer(MOF; Metering Out Fit) installed in 22.9kV power receiving system. In the three-dimensional analysis of the restored MOF, the damage pattern progressed from inside to outside, there was no damaged part in the upside. The resistance of the carbonized middle part is roughly $100\kappa\Omega$ and the exothermic temperature at inside is presumed as about $300\~800^{\circ}C$ in the result of metallurgical structure analysis. The structure and the composition rate on metal surface by SEM is similar. In the result of FT-IR analysis, we can observe the absorbtion peak at $1500cm^{-1}\;and\;1730 cm^{-1}$ is small. The high exothermic peak showed at the center part of the coil in the result of DTA.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1-5
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• 2000

In this paper, we analyzed the fire hazard of the ballast for fluorescent lamp used as the indoor lighting. In the result of being analyzed the ballast wire by stereo microscope, many melting points were discovered, it was impossible to judge a cause with the naked eye. In the Thermal-deteriorated ballast wire, elongation structure disappeared at above $700^{\circ}$, and it only showed the enlarged appearance of the copper particle. On the metallurgical microscope of short wire, as it was confirmed the regulation of the columnar structure and the void growth at the center of boundary-face, we found that electrical short-circuit generated. Also, it was confirmed the melted part on the analysis using SEM(scanning electron microscope). Not only CuL and Cuk line that is composition factor of copper but also OK line was observed uniformly on the spectra analysis using EDX(energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy). It means that oxygen took part in reaction at the recombination process.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.408-412
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• 2010

내화수림대 조성을 위하여 난대수종 중 내화성 수종을 선발하고자 콘칼로미터를 이용하여 5수종(감탕나무, 구실잣밤나무, 동백나무, 붉가시나무, 후박나무)을 대상으로 수피, 가지, 생엽 등 부위별 연소특성을 분석하였다. 난대수종의 평균 열방출율(HRR)은 감탕나무($167.66kW/m^2$)>구실잣밤나무($142.80kW/m^2$)>동백나무($116.78kW/m^2$)>후박나무($95.48kW/m^2$)>붉가시나무($79.80kW/m^2$) 순으로 나타났다. 따라서, 붉가시나무가 산불 발생시 다른 수종에 비해서 화재강도가 낮은 것으로 사료된다. 수종별 부위(생엽, 가지, 수피)의 착화특성을 분석한 결과, 생엽에서 최초자연발화온도는 동백나무, 감탕나무($697^{\circ}C$)>후박나무($672^{\circ}C$)>구실잣밤나무($663^{\circ}C$)>붉가시나무($658^{\circ}C$) 순으로 나타났으며, 가지에서는 구실잣나무($671^{\circ}C$)>후박나무($669^{\circ}C$)>감탕나무($661^{\circ}C$)>붉가시나무($657^{\circ}C$)>동백나무($591^{\circ}C$) 순으로 나타났으며, 수피에서 동백나무($839^{\circ}C$)>후박나무($804^{\circ}C$)>동백나무($784^{\circ}C$)>붉가시나무($780^{\circ}C$)>감탕나무($749^{\circ}C$) 순으로 나타났다. 수종별 부위에 있어서 최초자연발화온도가 다른 것은 수종에 따라 조직과 세포간극 형태에 따라 수분함량의 차이가 착화특성을 다르게 나타내는 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.143-143
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• 2013

대학, 기업 및 국 공립 출연 연구소의 연구 활동 종사자는 학술적 연구 및 신기술, 신물질의 개발을 통해 우리나라 과학기술 발전에 크게 기여하고 있다. 그러나 이와 더불어 각종 안전사고에 노출되어 있는 것도 사실이다. 즉, 실험실은 대부분의 작업장 보다 더욱 많은 화재, 폭발 등의 위험에 항상 노출되어 있다. 이는 일반적인 작업장과는 다르게 실험이 종료되면 기존 실험 장치를 철거하고 신규로 다른 실험장치가 설치되기 때문이다. 연구실험실에서 발생한 사고 원인을 분석해 보면, 실험실 기능의 불비, 설비 및 유지관리의 불충분, 실험공간의 협소, 실험 작업 안전에 대한 배려부족, 안전전문가의 부족과 교육훈련체제의 미흡 등을 지적할 수 있으며, 이와 같은 빈번한 사고발생은 우수한 연구 활동 종사자의 연구 의욕을 떨어뜨리고, 건강과 생명에 위협을 느끼게 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 실험실 안전관리 체크리스트들을 검토하고, 안전관련 분야에서 사용되고 있는 심의 체크리스트를 조사하여, 대학 및 연구기관 등의 바이오실험실에 사용할 수 있는 표준 체크리스트를 개발하고자 한다. 현재 개발된 바이오 분야 체크리스트는 "연구실험실 공통 체크리스트"에 기반하여 바이오 분야에서 중점 평가할 항목을 심화시켜 구성하였다. 바이오 분야에서 주로 이루어지는 생물 실험 및 동물해부 실험시 안전을 위해 반드시 점검해야 할 총 8개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였으며, 실험동물 관리 및 사육실 출입시 안전을 위해 점검해야 할 총 11개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였고, 세포, 조직 배양 실험 및 유전자 조작 실험시 안전을 위해 점검해야 할 총 5개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였다. 또한 미생물 취급시 안전을 위해 점검해야 할 총 19개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였으며, 세균 취급시 안전을 위해 점검해야할 총 8개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였고 마지막으로, 바이러스 취급시 안전을 위해 점검해야할 총 5개의 세부 점검 항목을 제시하였다. 실험실 안전은 연구종사자의 올바른 안전의식, 연구관련 부서의 체계적 지원 및 실험실 안전 관련 법령의 완비가 뒷받침 되었을 때 비로소 가능한 일이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서 얻어진 체크 리스트가 이에 기여할 것이라 사료되며, 추후 분야별 실험실 안전관리 실태조사의 지침서로 활용되는데 목적이 있다.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.137-148
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• 2021

This study sought for an improvement plan of the overall preventive activity of Korean Citizen-Corps-Active-In-Disaster(CAIND) by utilizing the fact that The fire-fighters, who are focusing on social disaster response works, are surveyed for their awareness of the vivid expertise to Korean CAIND. This group is defined as the assistant organization in law about disaster prevention which, the local residents willingly made to handle the situation of disaster occurrence. Since the characteristics of volunteer activities are also inherent, related issues are also reviewed at the same time to resolve any unclear arguments by disaster prevention activity characteristics of Korean Citizen Corps Active in Disaster. Through the results, the study provided three major suggestions for an improvement plan. The results of the study are as follows: First, the quota management system of Korean CAIND that considers the characteristics of rural areas should be actively supplemented. Second, the current reward system for Korean CAIND activities at large disaster sites should be surely improved. Third, the current education and training system of Korean CAIND to satisfy regional conditions should be newly established. The results of this study are largely expected to be utilized as a basic data to develop Korean CAIND in the future.