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Numerical study of the Effect of Ventilation Condition on Rolling Stock Fire Growth through the FDS Simulation (환기량 조건이 열차 화재 성장에 미치는 영향성에 대한 FDS 화재 시뮬레이션)

  • Yang, Sungl-Jin;Lee, Chang-Deok;Oh, Ji-Eun;Kang, Chan-Yong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.124-132
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    • 2010
  • To predict and analyze the rolling stock's fire growth is considered not only important factor in estimating hazard analysis of rolling stock, but also a primary factor in aspect of a rail load facility. Because it's could be regarded as a ignition source in risk assesment for the facility i.e. tunnel and station. However, currently, standardized method to predict and analyze the fire growth has not been completed yet. it is due to the fact that fire growth is not only depended on thermal property of interior materials, but also is affected dominantly by various factors such as ignition source (characterized by location, duration, and intensity), train running condition and in/exterior ventilation condition. Especially, ventilation condition is one of the most effective factor to affect fire growth in compartment space as noticed by under-ventilation fire condition. In this study, the effect of each ventilation condition on fire growth and load were examined through the numerical method through FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator).

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An Analysis of the Fire Load and Ventilation Factor in Underground Commercial Space (지하상업공간의 환기계수 및 화재하중 분석)

  • Choo Yeun-Hee;Lee Ji-Hee;Hong Won-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.135-142
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to obtain the fire safety for underground commercial space with analysing fire loads and ventilation factors. It was adopted the investigation method of field survey with commercial uses for more confidential data. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; 1) The ventilation factor shows $0.04{\sim}0.24m^{1/2}$ and it may develop ventilation-controlled fires which have much fire hazard more than fuel-controlled fires. 2) The highest value of fire load is $158.48kg/m^2$ and appeared in footwear shop which has the value $137.35kg/m^2$ for unfixed combustibles and $21.13kg/m^2$ for fixed combustibles. 3) The average value of burning rates which mean the velocity of fire development and the fire damage range is 0.143. Therefore it is desired to decrease the combustibles of compartment and is needed the method of dispersion arrangement of goods and storage to steel cabinet and so on.

Study on the Determination of Fire Protection Thickness based on Section Factor (강재의 단면형상에 따른 내화피복두께 산정 연구)

  • 정청운;지남용;권인규
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.139-142
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    • 2003
  • Traditionally, the thickness of fire protection materials of structural elements such as beam and column have been decided by fire test using the predominant steel section of $H-300{\times}300{\times}10{\times}15$ for column and $H-400{\times}200{\times}8{\times}13$ for beam in Korea. But this way of determination of fire protection thickness yields very unduly results. Because the temperature-increment rate of structural steel elements depends mainly on magnitude of their cross-areas. In general, the thicker size of cross-areas for structural elements, the lower temperature shows up. It had already proved that the fire protection thickness only depends on the size of cross-areas and the fire protection method for three-fide or four-side exposed conditions in European countries, the United State of America and so on. To demonstrate there would be differences among various cross-areas for structural elements, we conducted several fire tests with full-scale specimens of beams and columns. For the determination of critical temperature for steel section when the fire resistant performance is needed to be decided, we conducted with a loaded fire test for beam and column, respectively. The small column in 1.0 meter length and beam in 1.5 meter length were used in order to deprive the rational fire protection thickness of structural elements such as beam and column, respectively. After test, we could obtain there were significant temperature lass between higher cross-areas and lower cross-areas. The critical temperature of steel as a criterion is used 538$^{\circ}C$ for column and 593$^{\circ}C$ for beam which is from ASTM E 119 because we don't make provisions as critical temperature by elements. We could consider that the best way of determination of fire protection thickness is using the following multi-regression equation which was deprived from several fire tests using the concept of section factor, FR(column) = 0.17 +5191.49t A/Hp + 40.77t, FR(beam) = 0.25 +6899.31t A/Hp + 32.60t(where, FR means fire resistant time, t means thickness, A means cross-area and Hp means heated parameter).

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Fire and Rangeland's Management in India

  • Paulsamy, S.;Manian, S.;Kil, Bong-Seop
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2005
  • Fire, usually a detrimental factor makes changes in commonly structure and functions when it is practiced properly. In countries like Australia, South Africa, Japan and Texas in USA etc., fire is used as a tool to manage the natural ecosystems in productive condition on the basis of ecological approach. However, in developing countries like India there is effective measure to use and control fire in rangelands. This review provides knowledge on changes in sociological characters of plants, biomass profile, cycling of materials and strategy to use fire for the shaping of communities in different rangelands located in India and other countries. Further, the informations furnished in this article will be more useful for the forest managers, planners of rangelands and administrators in countries like India and tropical countries with similar bioclimatic conditions to prepare appropriate management plans where the fire is an integral factor.

An experimental study for fire protective coating structure according to Shape factor (철골 단면형상에 따른 내화구조의 실험적 연구)

  • Ok, Chi Yeol;Park, Jin O;Jeon, Soo Min
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2013.11a
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    • pp.153-154
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    • 2013
  • 내화구조로 인정을 받은 국내의 철골조 기둥의 경우 대다수가 H형강에 내화제품을 피복한 구조이다. 본 연구에서는 한국산업표준에서 제시하고 있는 단면형상계수를 기준으로 H형강 인정구조와 다양한 단면의 내화구조의 비교실험을 통해 국내 인정제도를 개선하기 위한 자료로 활용하고자 하였다.

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An Experimental Study on the Fire Resistance behaviour of Asymmetric Slimfloor Beam According to Cross Section Shape Variation (비대칭 H형강 합성보의 단면형상변화에 따른 온도특성 및 화재거동에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jun;Kim, Heung-Youl;Lee, Jae-Sung;Kwon, Ki-Hyuck;Yeo, In-Hwan
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2012
  • The temperature development of a structural element is dependent on section factor, which is estimated as a ratio of the fire-exposed perimeter to the cross-section area. Hence, with the higher section factor, the faster temperature development of the section os observed. Composite beam member, partially embedded asymmetry H beam, has a good fire resistance to the cross-section. The study was intended to conduct with change with section factor. The experimental result of section type which the Slim Beam Floor is bottom flange reinforced method.

MULTI-SENSOR INTEGRATION SYSTEM FOR FOREST FIRE PREVENTION

  • Kim Eun Hee;Chi Jeong Hee;Shon Ho Sun;Jung Doo Young;Lee Chung Ho;Ryu Keun Ho
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.450-453
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    • 2005
  • A forest fire occurs mainly as natural factor such as wind, temperature or human factor such as light. Recently, the most of forest fire prevention is prediction or prevision against forest fire by using remote sensing technology. However in order to forest fire prevention, the remote sensing has many limitations such as high cost and advanced technologies and so on. Therefore, we need to multisensor integration system that utilize not only remote sensing but also in-situ sensing in order to reduce large damage of forest fire though analysis of happen cause and prediction routing of occurred forest fire. In this paper we propose a multisensor integration system that offers prediction information of factors and route of forest fire by integrates collected data from remote sensor and in-situ sensor for forest fire prevention. The proposed system is based on wireless sensor network for collect observed data from various sensors. The proposed system not only offers great quality information because firstly, raw data level fuse different format of collected data from remote and in-situ sensor but also accomplish information level fusion based on result of first stage. Offered information from our system can help early prevention of factor and early prevision against occurred forest fire which transfer to SMS service or alert service into monitoring interface of administrator.

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Effect of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) on the fire safety of concrete structures

  • Gupta, Sanchit;Singh, Dheerendra;Gupta, Trilok;Chaudhary, Sandeep
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.263-278
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    • 2022
  • Limestone calcined clay cement (LC3) is a low carbon alternative to conventional cement. Literature shows that using limestone and calcined clay in LC3 increases the thermal degradation of LC3 pastes and can increase the magnitude of fire risk in LC3 concrete structures. Higher thermal degradation of LC3 paste prompts this study toward understanding the fire performance of LC3 concrete and the associated magnitude of fire risk. For fire performance, concrete prepared using ordinary Portland cement (OPC), pozzolanic Portland cement (PPC) and LC3 were exposed to 16 scenarios of different elevated temperatures (400℃, 600℃, 800℃, and 1000℃) for different durations (0.5 h, 1 h, 2 h, and 4 h). After exposure to elevated temperatures, mass loss, residual ultrasonic pulse velocity (rUPV) and residual compressive strength (rCS) were measured as the residual properties of concrete. XRD (X-ray diffraction), TGA (thermogravimetric analysis) and three-factor ANOVA (analysis of variance) are also used to compare the fire performance of LC3 with OPC and PPC. Monte Carlo simulation has been used to assess the magnitude of fire risk in LC3 structures and devise recommendations for the robust application of LC3. Results show that LC3 concrete has weaker fire performance, with average rCS being 11.06% and 1.73% lower than OPC and PPC concrete. Analysis of 106 fire scenarios, in Indian context, shows lower rCS and higher failure probability for LC3 (95.05%, 2.22%) than OPC (98.16%, 0.22%) and PPC (96.48%, 1.14%). For robust application, either LC3 can be restricted to residential and educational structures (failure probability <0.5%), or LC3 can have reserve strength (factor of safety >1.08).

A Study on the Fire Risk of the Kimchi Refrigerator through Case Analysis of Fire Accidents (사례 분석을 통한 김치냉장고의 화재 위험성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Nam Kyu;Ji, Hong Keun;Song, Jae Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we describe fire risk of Kimchi refrigerator. The Kimchi refrigerator has been widely spread and used starting from the first half of 2000 and recently fire accidents caused by the Kimchi refrigerator emerged as social concern. In particular, in products of a specific manufacturer, it is not an environmental factor, but a characteristic that the fire is caused due to a defect of the product itself is shown. These features are judged to be formed by unique defects regardless of external factor by forming electrically arc mark in the relay element. In this paper, we analyzed the cause of the fire occurring in the Kimchi refrigerator and finally confirmed the characteristic that the fire occurred mainly in the relay element due to insufficient capacity of the relay element. Therefore, when a fire occurs in a product of the same maker as the Kimchi refrigerator mentioned in this paper, it is always judged that the inspection of the relay element should be carried out.