• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• no.28
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• pp.109-116
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• 2001

The plastic furniture made of new materials has enriched and broadened our everyday life not only through development of manufacture but also through consumptions since 1960′s. In relation as well to the need of reducing energy consumption and contributing to environment, the weight of plastic materials has raised concerns in recently. It should be pointed out that development of design technology, which would be risky to develop these synthetic materials was the strategic foundation of Kartell of which principal know-how with plastic techniques. Our rapidly changing lifestyle demands a new design that meet recognition of inflection. In conclusion as we are preparing to enter into the 21st Century, we should go forward with hope and do so with dispatch-dazzling all of us with boldness, thinking imaginatively, transform indifference into action, moving things to the next level in furniture industries, asking the "historic background of designing in plastic seat furniture" questions, challenging the very examples of the past in Kartell, Italy. From this study we have found that it would be useful to understand that the development of technological plastic materials for seat furniture has enabled designers to create ore and more sophisticated design in our millennium life.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.424-435
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• 1973

This paper attempts to find out the development of designs of chairs in interiors. It will discussed by dividing into two periods; the pre-world war I, and the post-world war I up to date. In the first part it will concentrate on four types of design materjals; plywood, metal, solid wood, and plastic chairs. In the second part it will deal with only two materials; Metal and solid wood. Under each material one designer and manufacturer, the country where the designer worked, and related dates. It will discuss how the design materiai was exploited by each designer within its potentials including how chair was made, what design elements could do, whether he used the potentials, and the potentials were fully exploited. And it discusses the success of the chair design material as shown in the interiors or failure of the chair design material. Fainally under each material one picture of chairs, one or two pictures for the chairs in the interiors, of the chairs will be provided. A bibliography will be attached to the end of the paper.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2020

As performance-based design (PBD) has a direct impact on evacuation safety assessments, designing fire scenarios based on real fire tests is essential. To improve the reliability of the PBD for fire safety in multiplexes, information on fire behavior, such as heat release rate (HRR) and fire spread rate, are provided in this study by conducting a standard fabric flammability test. To this end, several chairs were arranged in a pattern that resembled a theater-style seating. The peak HRR and heating value per unit mass for each chair ranged from 415 kW to 988 kW and 15.2 MJ/kg to 23.8 MJ/kg, respectively. The heating values per unit mass of the new and old chairs were 23.6 MJ/kg and 16.7 MJ/kg, respectively. As the quantity of plastic and cushioning materials in the new chairs was more than that of the old ones, the new chairs were more vulnerable to fire hazards. Furthermore, when the chairs were arranged in a line, the fire spread rate was observed to be 0.39-0.42 m/min, regardless of the ignition location. Finally, a fire growth curve showing the peak HRR and fire spread rate was also demonstrated.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.193-196
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• 2011

본 연구는 주거시설의 대표적인 가연물을 고정가연물과 적재가연물로 구분하여 가연물의 연소특성을 실험결과에 대한 연구이다. 고정가연물은 7종에 대하여 Cone Calorimeter로 적재가연물은 2종 Furniture Calorimeter로 실험을 실시하였다. 고정가연물의 경우 접착성분을 지니고 있는 시트지의 경우가 HRR등이 높게 측정되었으며, 적재가연물의 경우 섬유성분과 플라스틱으로 구성되어 있는 의자가 높게 측정되는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.45-50
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• 2014

In the previous paper, we have reported on the development of foaming sponge seat with the auxiliary spring member and suggested new possibility of the special seat with the auxiliary plastic member for movie theater chair. In this study, we have examined the major design parameters needed in the development of a foaming sponge seat in which the mesh type plastic member are inserted to improve the vibration transfer effect of a chair seat. Through analyzing several prototypes by applying experimentation as well as the experimental modal analysis method, it was confirmed that the effect of vibration transfer can be improved through the use of a mesh type plastic member and applied to the design of practical chair seat.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.335-342
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• 2011

The virgin and recycled polyethylene composites with various ratio of fly ash were manufactured by using a fully intermeshing co-rotating twin screw extruder for the reuse of fly ash from power plant and post-consumed polyethylene. Fly ash were blended with virgin HDPE and recycled polyethylene at the weight fraction of 0 to 40 wt.%. Mechanical properties such as yield strength, abrasion resistance, and slow crack resistance were measured with ISO and ASTM standards. The experimental results for the various composites showed that the elongation at break and the yield stress of the composites decreased with increasing fly ash contents. Generally, the abrasion resistance of PEs decreased with increasing sandpaper grits but the abrasion resistance of the composites increased with fly ash content at finer abrasive surface. The slow crack growth resistance of virgin HDPE, recycled JRPE and the JRPE composite showed higher slow crack growth resistance up to 50% of load at notch depth of 20% and 30%, but KRPE and the KRPE composite showed much lower resistance than virgin HDPE, JRPE and the JRPE composite. Time to break, measured with NCLS test method, of all PEs and the composites satisfies the regulation of Korean Industrial Specification for sewer pipe and support application.