• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.29-36
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• 2017

The design fire based on the heat release rate (HRR) of combustibles can significantly affect the assessment of fire safety in the performance-based design (PBD). In the present PBD, however, limited information in the foreign literature has been used without further verification due to the lack of fire information in domestic combustibles. The objective of this study is to provide information on the HRR and fire growth rate for various combustibles in residential and office spaces. To end this, the fire experiments were carried out with single and multiple combustibles. The peak HRR of combustibles used in the present study had a range of 36 kW~1,092 kW. The fire growth rates were also $0.003kW/s^2{\sim}0.0287kW/s^2$ and $0.003kW/s^2{\sim}0.0838kW/s^2$ for the residential and office spaces, respectively. In particular, a sofa had the highest fire risk in terms of the peak HRR and fire growth rate. Finally, a methodology for calculating the peak HRR in a space was proposed through correlation analysis between the peak HRR and exposed surface of various combustibles.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.295-300
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• 2011

국내 건축물 외장재의 화재위험성 판단을 위한 기준 설정 및 건축물 외장재 수직확산 방지를 위하여 국내 외 실규모 화재실험을 비교 분석하였다. 현재 미국, 영국 등의 화재안전선진국들에서는 NFPA 285, BS 8414-1 등의 실대형 화재 실험을 통하여 외장재의 화재위험성을 판단하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내 외 건축물 외장재의 수직화재확산 성능 평가 방법들의 비교 분석을 통하여 국내 실정에 맞는 실대형의 화재실험 방법을 결정하고자 하였다. 본 결과를 통해 건축물의 단위 공간에서 화재가 발생하여 화재의 성장이 플래시오버에 도달한 후 창문 등의 개구부를 통하여 화염이 출화되었을 때 이러한 화염에 의한 건축물 외장재의 수직화재 확산 성능 평가하는 건축물 외장재 수직확산 실대형 화재실험 장비를 개발하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.377-382
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• 2010

건물의 대형화 고층화로 고강도 콘크리트의 사용이 증대되면서 고강도 콘크리트의 화재 시 폭열 대책이 필요하다. 본 연구는 전국 화력발전소에서 매립되는 Bottom Ash와 EPS를 재활용하여 건축소재의 내화기준에 만족하고 자원순환 소재의 새로운 개발방향을 제시하고자 난연성이 가미된 경량콘크리트 패널을 개발하여 그 난연 성능 및 벽체로서의 성능을 실험하였다. 실험은 Bottom Ash를 활용한 코팅 경량골재를 2개 Type으로 개발하여 단위중량, Flow, 압축강도, 열전도율, 부착강도, 건조수축, 흡수율, 난연 성능을 평가하였다. 그 결과 대부분의 데이터가 KS기준에 맞게 나왔으며, 난연 성능 또한 1급으로 나왔다. 이로서 폐자재인 Bottom Ash와 EPS를 재활용하여 화재 시 난연성능이 확보됨은 물론 국가성장핵심 사업인 녹색성장에 걸맞은 새로운 경량콘크리트 패널을 개발할 수 있게 되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.218-219
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• 2020

The risk of a fire in a building is closely related to the usage of the building. In particular, all fires that occur in a building are not risky to safety of human life, and it is associated with the combustion area and the increase of total floor area of the building. Therefore, this study focused on safety of human life in terms of the statistics of fire with considering the aspect of growing fires and analyzed the statistical data of fire for 10 years. As for the analysis on fire, the time of occurrence by usages of buildings, frequency of occurrence and the ratio of casualties etc. were analyzed. It is expected that results of this study could be used for evaluations on a variety of parts in terms of design, construction and maintenance of buildings.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.9-20
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• 2019

This study was examined fire risk properties of wood specimen for the constructional interiors, especially focusing on the fire performance index (FPI) and the fire growth index (FGI) as heat hazard characteristics. Flame retardants were synthesized using boric acid, boronic acid and tetraethoxyorthosilicate. Heat release characteristics were measured by using a cone calorimeter (ISO 5660-1) and cypress was used. The external heat flux as fire intensity was maintained at 50 kW/㎡. The measured fire performance index (FPI) after burning was increased by 1.6 times for boric acid/silicone (BA/Si) sol, each 1.1 times for isobutylboronic acid/silicone (IBBA/Si) sol and phenylboronic acid/silicone (PBA/Si) sol compared with cypress. Fire risk by the fire performance index was increased BA/Si, IBBA/Si ≈ PBA/Si order. The fire growth index was decreased 94% for the BA/Si and 8% for the IBBA/Si sol, and was increased by 17% for the PBA/Si sol. Fire risk by the fire growth index was increased BA/Si, IBBA/Si, PBA/Si order. Overall fire risk was higher in the order of BA/Si < IBBA/Si < PBA/Si.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.20-27
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• 2019

In this study, a new function with higher accuracy for fire heat release rate prediction was developed. The 'αt²' curve, which is the major exponential function currently used for fire engineering calculations, must be improved to minimize the prediction gap that causes fire system engineering inefficiency and lower cost-effectiveness. The newly developed prediction function was designed to cover the initial fire stage that features rapid growth based on logistic function theory, which has a more logical background and graphical similarity compared to conventional exponential function methods for 'αt²'. The new function developed in this study showed apparently higher prediction accuracy over wider range of fire growth durations. With the progress of fire growth pattern studies, the results presented herein will contribute towards more effective fire protection engineering.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.26-35
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• 2016

Sprinkler installations shall be operated at normal operating temperature of the atmosphere as a fire sprinkler head in any facility to control and extinguish the fire when the fire initially. Recently, however, some flush type quick response automatic sprinkler heads in slow fire place is a problem that can not be normal operation are raised. In this paper, by using the experimental model of the Apartment house of Commons and Cabinet burner size bedrooms fire conditions to form a slow growth rate and can supply more than 0.2 MPa pressure is the minimum pressure that can be applied inside the pipe in the field experiment was conducted. In the majority of experiments lush type quick response automatic sprinkler heads which is used in the country it was confirmed to be incompletely opened as the Cold Soldering occur. This phenomenon is likely to fail early fire suppression and control because they can cause the spread of fire and casualties needed to complement domestic product testing and type approval standards through additional research.

• 방재와보험
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• s.112
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• pp.11-16
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• 2006

20년 전 수탁시험이 주 업무였던 방재시험연구원이 지금은 우수방화제품 인증과 화재소방분야연구에서 눈부신 성장을 일궈왔다. 앞으로 범세계적인 기관으로 국가와 고객의 이익에 이바지하겠다는 야심찬 꿈을 꾸고 있는 방재시험연구원의 발자취를 돌아본다.

• 방재와보험
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• s.137
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• pp.60-61
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• 2010

이번 탐방은 자동차부품인 조향품.주물품을 생산하는 공장으로 GM의 올해 우수 공급업체로 선정되는 등 뛰어난 품질로 글로벌 기업으로 성장하는 (주)만도 Steering 사업본부 원주공장을 방문하였다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.50-58
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• 2019

The prediction performance of B-RISK was evaluated for the fire behaviors of combustibles in a compartment using Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS). First of all, to predict the heat release rate (HRR) for two combustible sets, the HRR for one combustible set and the design fire curve were used as input values for B-RISK. Comparing results of B-RISK calculations with experimental data for two combustible sets, it was found that B-RISK results predicted insufficiently for fire growth rate of experimental data but there was good agreement for maximum HRR and total HRR with the experimental data. And the B-RISK results were used for input values of FDS to evaluate the fire behaviors of B-RISK results. Comparing results of FDS calculations with experimental data, the simulation results showed that the temperature and concentrations of O₂, CO₂ in the fire growth phase were different from the experimental data. However, when using the B-RISK result for percentile 70%, the simulation results sufficiently predicted the overall fire behaviors.