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A Study on the Arson Fire Characteristics based on Domestic Fire Statistics and Computer Simulation (국내화재통계 및 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션에 의한 방화화재 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jin;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2008
  • With the development of the Korean economy, the number of arson fire has been radically increased and become a huge problem and issue in Korea Society for last several decades. This study is to establish the fire life safety strategy regarding the arson fire through researching domestic fire statistics and performing the computer simulation based on fire scenarios with cutting edge techniques and methods for fire characteristics and fire dynamic. In addition, to design the fire life safety strategy depending on the arson fire pattern, the flow and characteristics of fire flames and smoke are analyzed by the computer modeling.

Statistics and Management Systems of Unwanted Domestic and Foreign Fire Alarms (국내·외 비화재보의 통계 및 관리체계에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Euy-Hong;Lee, Sung-Eun;Choi, Don-Mook
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.30-40
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    • 2020
  • In the event of a fire and a disaster, prompt and accurate alarms inside and outside the building are directly related to the minimization of damage and the success of life evacuation. However, due to unwanted fire alarms in automated fire detection systems, the number of dispatches by misunderstanding in the 119 service is increasing. This causes the insensitivity to the safety of building managers and the waste of the fire-fighting power. Therefore, in this study, the statistical databases and literature on unwanted fire alarms in Korea and abroad (USA, UK) were identified and the management systems for unwanted fire alarms were compared and analyzed to identify problems of statistics in the management systems for unwanted fire alarms.

A Study on the Evacuation Safety Design laws based on the Fire Risk (화재리스크에 기초한 피난안전설계법에 관한 연구)

  • Huh, Ye-rim;Kim, Hye-Won;Lee, Byeong-Heun;Jin, Seung-Hyeon;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2019.05a
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    • pp.51-52
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    • 2019
  • Currently in domestic, it is difficult to the evacuation in fire due to the building is higher. Therefore it is necessary to evacuation safety design of building. To conduct the evacuation fire design of building, it should be done the Evacuation Safety Verification. But it is not sufficient the Study about Evacuation Safety Verification in currently domestic. Therefore in this study, we conducted the evacuation safety verification using people who they can't the evacuation themselves. The method of verification, we suggest the comparative that people who they can't the evacuation themselves and available safety evacuation time. Available safety evacuation time is determined by determined method from disaster statistics of casualties or equivalence with current standard requirement. it is doing to objectively judge of evacuation safety design validity in building.

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A Study on the Improvement of Safety Management by Analyzing the Current Status and Response System of Forest Fire Accidents (산불사고 현황과 대응체계 분석을 통한 안전관리 개선방안 연구)

  • Jeong, Kyung-ok;Kim, Dae-jin
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.457-469
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present the direction of improvement of safety management by reviewing the current status of forest fire accidents that are becoming larger throughout the year and the problems of the response system. Method: Domestic and foreign literature survey and statistics of recent forest fire accidents by Statistics Korea investigated and analyzed the cause, number of damage, and suggested ways to improve forest fire safety management through domestic and foreign forest fire response systems. Result: Through the analysis of the causes of recent wildfires and overseas response cases, measures to improve the safety management of wildfires in terms of hardware, software, and humanware were derived. Conclusion: The plan to improve forest fire safety management was classified into three main categories and presented, and it should be embodied through further related research.

A Study on the Arson Fire Char-acteristics based on Computer Simulation (컴퓨터 시뮬레이션에 의한 방화화재 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jin
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.239-253
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    • 2007
  • With the development of the Korean economy, the number of arson fire has been radically increased and become a huge problem and issue in Korea Society for last several decades. This study is to establish the fire life safety strategy regarding the arson fire through performing the computer simulation based on fire scenarios with researching domestic fire statistics and cutting edge techniques and methods for fire characteristics and fire dynamic. In addition, to design the fire life safety strategy depending on the arson fire pattern, the flow and characteristics of fire flames and smoke is analyzed by the computer modeling.

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The Characteristics of the Fatal Accidents Caused by Fire, Explosion and Asphyxiation during Welding and Flame Cutting in the Manufacturing Industry (제조업에서의 용접·용단 작업 중 화재·폭발·질식 사망사고 특성)

  • Seo, Dong-Hyun;Han, Ou-Sup;Lee, Keun-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2019
  • Many accidents have been occurring during welding and flame cutting work related to maintenance and repair as the domestic manufacturing facilities gradually become decrepit. However, it is not easy to find the accurate statistics and analysis data on accidents occurring during welding or flame cutting operations related to maintenance and repair of machinery and equipment. Therefore, in this study, the fatal accident cases of fire/explosion and asphyxiation that occurred during the welding and flame cutting work in the manufacturing industry were collected and their characteristics were analyzed. Then, we tried to find the connection of the accidents according to the machinery/equipment and the work content, and to provide the materials and measures that can be used to prevent the similar accidents. We collected 329 cases of the fatal accidents related to fire/explosion and leakage/contact of chemical substances in the domestic manufacturing industry during the last 10 years (2008 ~ 2017). Among them, 72 accidents occurred during welding or flame cutting were extracted and the related reports were investigated whether they occurred during usual work or unusual work. Also, the machinery/equipment and the work content related to the accidents were classified and analyzed based on the criteria. The analysis results showed that 31 cases of the fire/explosion accidents occurred during usual work and 32 cases during unusual work, and it was found that 9 cases of asphyxiation death occurred during usual work. Then, from the analysis results, the connections of the machinery/equipment and the work contents related to the accidents were schematized into a accident tree.

A Study for Performance Improvement of Fire Detector and Sprinkler Head in Apartment Houses (공동주택 화재감지 및 소화성능개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chae-Won;Son, Bong-Sei
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2015
  • This study suggested the problems and their improvement measures for the operation of fire detectors and sprinkler heads installed at apartment houses. According to a census on population and housing in 2010, apartment houses account for 71.6% of the total housing facilities. And by fire statistics data of the National Emergency Management Agency, approximately 25.0% of fire accidents and 46.4% of casualties occur at apartment houses every year. Therefore, this study conducted for identifying the causes and characteristics of fire to establish the fire safety improvement measures for apartment houses. And this study was carried out virtual fire simulation at domestic apartment houses. The scenario of the simulation contains a comparative analysis on the operation time of standard sprinkler heads and residential sprinkler heads, heat detectors and smoke detectors. As a result of simulation, it was found that standard sprinkler heads and heat detectors installed at the existing apartment houses should be replaced with residential sprinkler heads and smoke detectors for rapid fire suppression. In addition, sprinkler systems should be considered to be installed for excluded floor at apartment houses. Especially, it is necessary to construct remote inspect systems like advanced countries for efficiency of apartment houses safety management.

Properties of Density and Thermal Conductivity according to Addition ratio of Vermiculite of Lightweight Composite Panel Core (경량복합패널 심재의 버미큘라이트 첨가율에 따른 밀도 및 열전도율 특성)

  • Sin, Jin-Hyun;Kim, Heon-Tae;Kim, Tae-Hyun;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Lee, Sang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2016.10a
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    • pp.111-112
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    • 2016
  • Lately, In case of domestic fire situation, Suffocation due to inflammables has shown higher than direct disaster of the fire among the statistics of death caused by disaster. According to study, Lightweight Hybrid Panel as using the inner or outer wall is made with Polysilicon of the inorganic material, PA and vermiculite, so we make progress to performance experiment and review the density, thermal conductivity properties.

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Moisture Content of Litter Layer and Its Combustibility by Cigarette Light in Forests (森林內 落葉層의 含水量과 담뱃불에 의한 可燃性)

  • 김관수;장인수;김수정
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 1994
  • This study focuses on forest fires attributed to cigarette light, the main source of wild fires, by examining the characteristics of the fire types. It aims to present useful data for preventive measures. Statistics show that the average length of cigarette butts left after smoking is 30mm excluding filter for domestic cigarette smokers. Also the average thickness of litter layer in forests is 58.2mm throughout the nation. The value varies according to how often leaves were trodden by hikers : the accumulation amount of Mt. Sunchi. which is relatively protected from human disturbances, is 29.6% more than that of Mt. Kye-Ryong National Park. Aged trees such as Pznus rzgidu, Quercus acutissima and Larix leptolepis have relatively large inflammable contents, 2.43kg in 15 year-old stand and 2.55kg in 10 year-old stand. This study found out the following fact with regard to the start of lighting and the out-break of fire. Fire breaks out within five minutes in the sample(C), in which Zoysza gaponica and Populus X tomentiglandulosu has been tramped when the sample has 2~6 percent of moisture contents. Coniferous trees such as Pinus rigida and Larzx leptolepis do not burn easily while leaving charcoal. In contrast, deciduous trees with Zoysia japonzca and Populus X tomentiglandulosu are quick to catch fire. As a result of the experiments, it is proved that cigarette light is a very dangerous cause of wild fire especially for dry grass like Zoysia gaponica.

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Research trend analysis for Combustion products, Combustion products remove technique (연소생성물제거 기술에 대한 연구 동향 분석)

  • Lee, Hyunjin;Ko, Jae-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.52-58
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    • 2017
  • According to 2015 ministry of public safety and security statistics, product of combustion makes the most victims while fire. for that reason, recent studies about combustion products have been researched actively in domestic and foreign papers. In domestic, study is handling the combustion product effects on human body and flame propagation. Foreign study is conduct about combustion product effects to shelter in offshore and toxic effects on human. because combustion product is toxic and disturb escape by block the view, many research conducted about optimize combustion product removal facilities using dispersion experiments and CFD simulations. In this study, this paper analysed research trend about toxic gas production model while combustion and its removal facilities, it will be the standard of combustion products research.