• 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.22 no.5
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• pp.35-42
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• 2008

With the huge navy projects such KDX-III, LPX, bigger and more complicated vessel constructions are being underway in navy. In this paper, considering these trends, we performed a risk analysis on the navy vessel for the fatality of soldiers on board and presented the risk level with FN curve. Assuming a fire occurs in one of the soldier bedrooms, we established event tree to visualize the possible development scenarios and calculated the fatality for each scenario. The critical condition to survive inside the bedroom was obtained through CFAST program.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.432-435
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• 2011

산불로 인한 피해는 비단 산림뿐만 아니라 산림인접지 가옥, 사찰과 같은 건축물에서도 발생된다. 특히, 사찰은 국보뿐만 아니라 다양한 문화재를 보유하고 있어 산불로 인해 소실될 경우 문화 자산의 피해가 불가피하다. 이에 국보보유사찰, 문화재 다량보유사찰, 조계종 교구 본사, 세계문화재 등재 사찰 등을 포함한 우리나라 주요사찰 42개소에 대해 미국 Firewise 및 캐나다의 Firesmart에서 제시한 산림인접지 시설물의 위험성 평가 방법을 기반으로 체크리스트 기법을 이용하여 '사찰 산불 위험성 평가'를 실시하였다. 체크리스트 주요 항목은 크게 입지 여건, 임상 및 산림과 사찰의 이격거리, 산불발생 개연성, 사찰 주변 가연물 화재위험성, 적정소방시설 여부, 기타 화재방지를 위한 시설물 평가 등 총 6개 항목으로 구분하여 26개 세부항목을 작성, 평가하였다. 정성적 위험성 평가 결과, 산불로 인한 화재 위험성이 높은 사찰과 산불피해 저감 대책을 제시하였고 향후, 정량적 위험성 평가를 통한 위험관리 모델 제시에 관한 연구를 수행하고자 한다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.12-17
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to determine how effectively waste tire recycled material mixed with flame retardant work in combating fire. As discovered in the previous study, waste tire mixed with cement mortar has more insulation capacity. However, this mortar is weak against fire. Therefore flame retardant, with a specific proportional mix, will be added to increase its fire prevention capacity. Tests will be made in accordance with ISO 5657 procedures for measuring fire ignition time, flame and shape variation of test pieces at the Building Material Test Institute. The test piece will be set up with horizontal levels having a constant radiation heat of $1{\sim}5W/cm^2$. Temperature transfers and increases from the surface into the interior. Combustible gases result due to pyrolysis, and regular contact is maintained between the fire source and the center of the test piece for assessment purposes. Ignition has not been occurred without adding retardant meaning that there is almost no possibility of ignition of waste tire particle. This fact can be considered as fire load to appreciate a volume of combustion materials. Flame is not occurred due to heat-absorbing effect by adding non-organic series retardant into waste tire particle. Conclusions have been summarized as follows; 1) Combustion of building material can be decreased by adding retardant to waste tire-mixing mortar. But compressive strength and insulation capacity of the material should be measured later. 2) Firing prevention and ignition are main points of building fire. Reasonable fire engineering assessment of interior material should be made for establishing effective disaster prevention system.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.121-127
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• 2019

This study examined a fire accident caused by a defect in the vehicle ABS module. A large number of vehicles using the same manufacturer's ABS module in recent fire events showed a tendency to combust due to the same faults. As previously stated in the ABS module which shows the electrical breakdown between the power lines supplied to the constant power source by the battery. The electrical breakdown of the ABS module was caused by defects of the ABS module itself that were influenced by of the external flame. These results highlight the need to determine if there is a deficiency of the ABS module in the investigation of the cause of a fire in a vehicle which is produced by the same manufacturer.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.533-536
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 차량 연료탱크에 충격탄 관통 시 화재발생 여부를 분석하기 위한 연구의 전단계로서, 충격탄 속도 변화에 따른 연료탱크 내부의 열전달특성을 분석하기 위해 전산유체역학기법을 도입하여 수치해석을 수행한 결과 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 잔류속도 120m/s의 경우, 관통부를 지난 위치에서 최대온도는 약 324.8K를 나타내고 잔류속도 360m/s의 경우, 충격탄이 관통부로 유입되면서 급격하게 증가되어 최고온도 약 382.1K를 나타낸다. 이러한 결과로 미루어 최고 온도가 가솔린 연료의 착화온도보다 높아 화재의 위험성이 있지만 순간적인 온도변화가 심하고 착화시간이 만족되지 않을 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.408-411
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• 2011

본 연구는 목조 문화재나 전통사찰 등에서 많이 적용되고 있는 단청처리된 목재에 대해 방염액을 사용하여 방염처리를 진행하였을 때 발생될 수 있는 백화현상를 단청목제가 적용 될 수 있는 외부환경과 일반적인 내부환경에 위치시켜 발생여부를 확인하여 보았다. 일반적으로 사용되어지는 6가지 종류의 단청색상에서 햇빛이나 눈비 등에 의한 영향, 습도 등에 따른 영향은 크지 않은 것으로 나타났으나 일부 단청 색상에서는 다소 습도가 높았던 실내 환경에서는 방염액이 많이 도포되어진 부분에서 백화현상이 일부 나타나는 것을 확인할 수 있었으며 단청의 색상을 구성하는 성분 차이에 의해 백화현상이 발생될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.217-224
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• 2022

Today, with the development of technology and industry, fire accidents in special buildings are increasing as special buildings increase. However, despite the rapid development of information and communication technology, human casualties are steadily occurring due to the underdeveloped and ineffective indoor fire alarm system. In this study, we confirmed that the existing indoor fire alarm system using acoustic alarm could not deliver a sufficiently large alarm to the in-room personnel. To improve this, we designed and implemented a fire alarm system using edge computing and beacons. The proposed improved fire alarm system consists of terminal sensor nodes, edge nodes, a user application, and a server. The terminal sensor nodes collect indoor environment data and send it to the edge node, and the edge node monitors whether a fire occurs through the transmitted sensor value. In addition, the edge node continuously generate beacon signals to collect information of smart devices with user applications installed within the signal range, store them in a server database, and send application push-type fire alarms to all in-room personnel based on the collected user information. As a result of conducting a signal valid range measurement experiment in a university building with dense lecture rooms, it was confirmed that device information was normally collected within the beacon signal range of the edge node and a fire alarm was quickly sent to specific users. Through this, it was confirmed that the "blind spot problem of the alarm" was solved by flexibly collecting information of visitors that changes time to time and sending the alarm to a smart device very adjacent to the people. In addition, through the analysis of the experimental results, a plan to effectively apply the proposed fire alarm system according to the characteristics of the indoor space was proposed.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.355-360
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• 2023

Fire is a disaster that causes irreversible damage to many people due to personal injury and property damage. Various fire detection equipments are installed around us to detect and cope with it quickly. However, due to various problems such as artificial, environmental, and aging, fire detection equipment is activated even though it is not a actual fire, and there are many problems such as delaying the support to the necessary fire scene. In this paper, we analyze the non-fire alarm of the fire detection equipment and propose a system that enables the field staff to check the scene situation through the video as a way to prevent the mobilization due to the misinformation by checking the fire. The purpose of the present invention is to stably cope with a disaster by suggesting a customized automatic guidance system which induces a rapid evacuation by sending an evacuation guidance notification to a range of a fire occurrence neighboring area, and supports a rapid and accurate processing by a rapid dispatch of a firefighter, rather than a wide range of guidance such as an existing emergency disaster guidance letter when it is determined to be an actual fire through the confirmation procedure.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.20 no.2 s.62
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• pp.21-30
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• 2006

Since Daegu subway arson fire disaster in 2003, there have been several copycat crimes such as at Seoul Metro line number seven and Hongkong Chuiwan line cases. Oil and gas were used for fire propagation in most cases as in Daegu case and such fire could be expanded to a whole subway cabin within several minutes. The fire may eventually cause the whole subway system stop. Fire damage can be minimized when fire occurrence and diffusion are blocked by stages or isolated rapidly. This study suggests an effective early response system that separates passengers from fire and a real-time fire extinguishment program by stages. Based on the subway arson case studies, the early response scenario has been structured by three stages, i.e., confirmation of fire and damage, early fire extinguishment, and information dissemination and passengers evacuation.