• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites are used extensively in aerospace, marine, automotive, infrastructure, chemical processing and sporting good applications. A concern with using FRP composites in some engineering structures is their high flammability and poor fire resistance In this research, material properties of FRP composites at increasingly high temperatures was measured and verified. The obtained mechanical properties of FRP composites were performed according to ASTM D3039/D3039M and tested to a wide range of heat conditions with temperatures from Room-temp. to 300 for times up to 30 min. It is found that the mechanical properties of FRP composites dropped with increasing heat or temperature. The reduction to the properties was due mainly to thermal degradation and combustion of the polymer matrix.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.268-276
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• 2001

A numerical model for the thermal response analysis of concrete structures is suggested. The model includes the stress-strain relationship, constitutive relationship, and multiaxial failure criteria at elevated temperature conditions. Modified Saenz's model was used to describe the stress-strain relationship at high temperatures. Concrete subjected to elevated temperatures undergoes rapid strain increase and dimensional instability. In order to explain those changes in mechanical properties, a constitutive model of concrete subjected to elevated temperature is proposed. The model consists of four strain components; free thermal creep strain, stress-induced (mechanical) strain, thermal creep strain, and transient strain due to moisture effects. The failure model employs modified Drucker-Prager model in order to describe the temperature dependent multiaxial failure criteria. Some numerical analyses are performed and compared with the experimental results to verify the proposed model. According to the comparison, the suggested material model gives reliable analytical results.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.44-49
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• 2014

The autoignition temperaturs (AIT) of solvent mixture is important index for the safe handling of flammable liquids which constitute the solvent mixtures. This study measured the AIT and ignition delay time for Propionic acid and 3-Hexanone system by using ASTM E659 apparatus. The AITs of Propionic acid and 3-Hexanone which constituted binary system were $511^{\circ}C$ and $425^{\circ}C$, respectively. The experimental AIT of Propionic acid and 3-Hexanone system were a good agreement with the calculated AIT by the proposed equations with a few average absolute deviation (A.A.D.). And Propionic acid and 3-Hexanone system was shown the minimum autoignition temperature behavior (MAITB).

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.8-13
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• 2013

The autoignition temperature (AIT) is important index for the safe handling of flammable liquids which constitute the solvent mixtures. This study measured the AITs and ignition delay time for Benzene and n-Hexane system by using ASTM E659 apparatus. The AITs of Benzene and n-Hexane which constituted binary system were $583^{\circ}C$ and $240^{\circ}C$, respectively. The experimental AITs of Benzene and n-Hexane system were a good agreement with the calculated AITs by the proposed equations with a few A.A.D. (average absolute deviation).

• 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.12a
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• pp.64-68
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• 2005

In this study, the smoke flows of the inner subway station were visualized through a numerical analysis and visualization experiment in the subway fire. A transparent acrylic model was designed and installed as 1:25th scale-down as the actual subway station by using geometrical similarity The properties of subway fire were reconstructed according to Densimetric Froude Similarity. The 47 to 53 ratio of the mixed air and Helium was inputted in the inner acrylic model to describe 1MW fire intensity with reference to the experiment paper. For the same time, the fire smoke from a smoke generator was inputted in the inner acrylic model with the mixture. At this time, the buoyancy effect of Helium gas went up the smoke to the acrylic model. When the sheet beam of Ar-lon laser was given out to the top and stair of subway model, the digital camcorder took the images of the scattered cluster of smoke particles when applying the smoke management system and PSD.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.538-545
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• 2017

Moisture evaporates, when concrete is exposed to fire, not only at concrete surface but also at inside the concrete to adjust the equilibrium and transfer properties of moisture. The equilibrium properties of moisture are described by means of water vapor sorption isotherms, which illustrate the hysteretical behavior of materials. In this paper, the prediction method of the moisture distribution inside the concrete members at fire is presented. Finite element method is employed to facilitate the moisture diffusion analysis for any position of member. And the moisture diffusivity model of high strength concrete by high temperature is proposed. To demonstrate the validity of this numerical procedure, the prediction by the proposed algorithm is compared with the test result of other researcher. The proposed algorithm shows a good agreement with the experimental results including the vaporization effect inside the concrete.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.208-213
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• 2010

In this study CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) analysis of the steady fire-driven fuid flow for the performance test of ventilation at railway tunnel between Heuksok and Nodeul Station from Seoul Metro 9 is performed. There were fans with exhaust and intake modes and each was installed at the middle and both ends of the tunnel. For this test, the pool fire source of methyl alcohol with 1.5MW and smoke generators were installed between the middle of tunnel and Heuksok Station. In this test, the smoke behavior from natural convection was observed for 10 minutes from the ignition of pool fire and then fans with intake-modes at both sides of Heuksok effect of fan-on with intake mode located in the opposite side of the tunnel nearby Heuksok Station on fire-driven fluid flow is studied on when the boundary conditions of fan-on at the tunnel between Heuksok and Nodeul Station are the same as test. FLUENT, a commercial CFD code, is used for this analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.44-49
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• 2013

Due to rapid rise of consuming rate for natural gas, installation and operation of high pressure natural gas pipeline is inevitable for high rate of gas transportation. Accordingly incidents on the underground high pressure natural gas pipeline come from various reasons will lead to massive release of natural gas and gas dispersion in the air. Further, fire and explosion from ignition of released gas may cause large damage. This study is for release rate, dispersion and flash fire of natural gas to establish a safety management system, setting emergency plan and safety distance.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.65-71
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• 2002

In this paper, the thermal and flame properties of GFRP with various flame retardant(aluminum trihydrate, antimony trioxide) compositions have been investigated by thermal analysis and flammability tests(LOI test, flammability 45 degree test). The flame and mechanical properties(hardness, tensile strength, modulus) of general purpose grade glass fiber/unsaturated polyester composite with flame retardant composition have been also evaluated. The effect of cure pressure on the flame properties of aerospace grade glass fiber/epoxy composite was investigated. Considering the flame and mechanical property of composite, we could determine the optimum flame retardant composition(ATH 10∼20 phr). Test results show that the flame property of glass fiber/epoxy composite is considerably affected by cure pressure conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05a
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• pp.805-805
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• 1995

핵연료저장시설의 화재 등 극단적인 사고조건하에서 $UO_2$ 소결펠렛의 습식산화와 건식산화에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 손상된 지르칼로이 피복관 속의 $UO_2$ 소결펠렛을 산성분위기의 습윤조건하에서 산화시킬 때의 $UO_2$ 펠렛의 산화속도는 IDR(mg/$\textrm{cm}^2$.min) = 1.55 [H$^{+}$]$^{1.21}$ 로 나타났다. 또한 습윤조건하에서 $UO_2$ 분말에 알카리 및 알카리 토금속 산화물, 그리고 백금족 및 회토류 산화물 등과 같은 불순물들이 존재할 때의 산화속도를 조사하였으며 이들에 대한 영향도 관찰하였다. 핵연료저장시설의 가상화재를 바탕으로 한 400~$700^{\circ}C$의 온도범위에서, 피복관이 씌워진 $UO_2$ 소결펠렛의 건식산화반응을 조사한 바 $UO_2$ 소결펠렛은 산화초기에 U$_4$O$_{9}$ 또는 U$_3$O$_{7}$ 등의 중간상 형성에 따른 3-4%의 부피축소에 의해 결정립계 균열이 일어나고, $600^{\circ}C$ 이하에서는 온도증가에 따라 중간상에서 U$_3$O$_{8}$ 상으로의 상변화에 의한 부피팽창으로 피복관의 변형과 함께 산화속도의 가속을 발견할 수 있었고, $600^{\circ}C$ 이상에서는 핵연료소자의 소성변형으로 인한 산화속도의 지연을 발견할 수 있었다. 또한 $UO_2$ 펠렛의 건식산화거동은 기체-고체 반응시의 전형적인 형태인 shrinking core model에 잘 적용될 것으로 판단되었다.