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Development of Composite Examination Equipment for Improvement of Fire Detectors Checking Technology (감지기의 점검 기술향상을 위한 복합시험기의 개발)

  • Kong, Ha-Sung;Lee, Jong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.135-143
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    • 2008
  • Recently as the testing of fire detector used the testing device for fire detector, there are something the matter in the perception function loss of fire detector, structure and form of the testing device for fire detector. The problem at oxidation of emitting smoke ashes hazardous article part and so on that checking person absorbs be. In this paper the problem or the conventional the examination equipment of fire detectors is analysed and researched. To solve these problems after the theoretical study and design and paint drawing of equipment the prototype of composite examination equipment of fire detectors was made. After compared with the conventional, part that improve of composite examination equipment of fire detectors are verified through the examination. In the future it will be useful the operation state and correct operation time of the fire detectors are measured after the research about the quality of the material and transparency of bellows cover is done.

Meteorological Determinants of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Fall, South Korea

  • Won, Myoung-Soo;Miah, Danesh;Koo, Kyo-Sang;Lee, Myung-Bo;Shin, Man-Yong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.99 no.2
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2010
  • Forest fires have potentials to change the structure and function of forest ecosystems and significantly influence on atmosphere and biogeochemical cycles. Forest fire also affects the quality of public benefits such as carbon sequestration, soil fertility, grazing value, biodiversity, or tourism. The prediction of fire occurrence and its spread is critical to the forest managers for allocating resources and developing the forest fire danger rating system. Most of fires were human-caused fires in Korea, but meteorological factors are also big contributors to fire behaviors and its spread. Thus, meteorological factors as well as social factors were considered in the fire danger rating systems. A total of 298 forest fires occurred during the fall season from 2002 to 2006 in South Korea were considered for developing a logistic model of forest fire occurrence. The results of statistical analysis show that only effective humidity and temperature significantly affected the logistic models (p<0.05). The results of ROC curve analysis showed that the probability of randomly selected fires ranges from 0.739 to 0.876, which represent a relatively high accuracy of the developed model. These findings would be necessary for the policy makers in South Korea for the prevention of forest fires.

Differential temperature fire detector analysis of comparative study based on sensor installation (차동식 열감지기 설치기준 비교분석에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Dong-Hwan;Yang, Kwang Mo;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.379-389
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    • 2014
  • Fire detectors are designed to minimize loss of life from a fire alarm system as an alarm to help evacuate more quickly until the completion of the evacuation alarm should be continued. the purpose of such alarms in order to achieve the characteristic fire heat release rate reaches a certain level, or when a certain time has elapsed, when the heat detector is to be alarms to answer. Requires a quick response, it is desirable to install the sensor as much as possible, but taking into account the cost of installation problems by engineering approach to minimize the quantity and rapidity of detection capability should be increased. In order to increase the rapidity of fire detectors in a room according to the height of the sensing period is to be maintained the optimum distance of the fire detector detects characteristics should be considered. Differential spot-type heat detectors installed domestic basis, depending on the type of sensor that can detect one sensor area is limited and less than 4m ceiling height regulations and simply double the number in excess of 4m and intended to be installed.

The Study on Effective Maintenance and Management of the Fire Fighting Equipment (소방장비의 효과적 운용방안에 관한 연구)

  • Chae, Jin;Woo, Seong-Cheon
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.48-60
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    • 2009
  • The field of fire administration has been reinforced and intensified with the manpower and all sorts of equipment, but since the consequence that was mainly given undue value to the quantitative expansion, some problems in the aspect of maintenance and management have been emerged. Characteristically, though, fire equipment should be highly practical, economically efficient and durable, and also have the effectiveness of utilizing them to the right place, maintaining and managing are not as appropriate as they need to have. Therefore, the research provide the effective measures of operating fire equipment by making a comparative study of problems drawn by the analysis of actual conditions on the maintenance and the management of fire equipment.

A Study on the Effective Method of Fire Extinguisher Maintenance In the Underground Parking Lot of the Apartment (아파트 지하주차장 소화기의 유지관리 효율화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Sam
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2016
  • The definition of an apartment is a building more than 5 stories high and which is the standard law. Currently, the number of apartments is increasing much faster than detached houses. Owning an apartment is a normal trend these days. However, the increasing number of apartments has been increasing the number of apartment fires which also has been making social problems. Therefore, this study was conducted for the fire extinguisher among other fire facilities because it is important for initial fire suppression. The research subject is on the fire extinguisher that is in the underground parking lot of 40 apartment complexes which are more than 10 stories. Survey and analysis were conducted for 80 fire extinguishers. There are two fire extinguishers for each apartment. The result of this study is that all installed fire extinguishers are ABC dry chemical type, 92% of them is 3.3kg and that meet the legal height(less than 1.5m). However, the condition such as appearance, inspection, manufactured year, appearance of signs, material of signs, size of signs, etc. was insufficiency. So improvement of law and system that are fire facility construction, maintenance implementation and additional designation of type approval about sign will be needed in my opinion.

A Study on the Correlation between Fire Statistics and GNI(Gross National Income) (국민소득과 화재발생 건수의 상관관계에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Jin-Man;Choi, Jae-Sung;Choi, Don-Mook
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2009
  • As a results of comparing with fire occurrences and gross national income(GNI), annual fire increasing rate has been 5.6%, and that of GNI has been 11% for the past 55 years. As GNI shows 5.4% higher than fire occurrences, economy growing rate is faster than that of fires. In addition, study has been done every 10 years from 1950's to 2000's. Fire occurrences increase twice as much annually and GNI increases above 3.3 times as much.

A Case Study of the Sungnyemun Fire for Identification (숭례문 화재의 감식 사례 연구)

  • Choi, S.B.;Lee, J.J.;Lee, T.Y.;Lee, C.J.;Choi, D.M.
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2009
  • The fire of Sungnyemun, National Treasure of No.1, gave to the Korean people and fire investigators big pains. The aim of this study are the identification of combustion traces and fire patterns of wooden building fire, burned with an accelerator, after spraying flammable materials on the wooden floor through the field study observation. Also, in the case of the similar fire, these results will be as good references to fire investigators for accurate investigations.

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A Cooperating Plan of Fire Investigation: Focused on Public-Private Partnership Theory (화재조사의 협력방안 모색: 민관파트너십이론을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Ranny;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2014
  • This study is to search cooperation plan about fire investigation based on the public-private partnership. Especially focused on the partnership with 4 sector; the academic world, insurance sector, industrial world, professionalist of private fire investigation. In conclusion, Firstly a partnership with the academic world should have courses or school subject extensions related to fire investigation. Secondly, a partnership with insurance sector should secure trust through unifying estimate standard about the origin of damage. Thirdly, A partnership with industrial company is presented making collaboration team to investigate the fire investigation. Lastly, the partnership with the private professionalist related to fire investigation should strengthen credibility and expertise.

A study on Noise Generation and Awareness of the Fire Alarm Sound in the Factory (공장소음으로 인한 화재 경보음 인지 영향정도에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Sam
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2015
  • The people who are in the noise factory are difficult to hear and recognize about fire and to evacuate quickly when a fire occurs. This study was conducted to analyze workplace's background noise of 31 factories in Incheon and to know the workplace noise level comparing to fire alarm sound level. The measured average noise level was 96.8dB(A). Noise level of measured result was exceeded as 6.8dB(A) comparing to NFSC (National Fire Safety Code) noise level of 90dB. NFPA suggests that when background noise exceeds 85dB or more than that, other methods should be considered to know alarm sound. Also fire alarm sound should exceed more than 15dB(A) comparing to background noise level. Therefore it was concluded that the design of the fire alarm systems should not be applied to the workplace without considering background noise and it needs to be improved with regulations and the systems.

Analysis of Fire Risk through Battery Fire Cases and Experiments of Wearable Devices (웨어러블 기기의 배터리화재사례와 실험을 통한 화재위험성 분석)

  • Lee, Jung-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzed ignition probability about Lithium-polymer batteries of what variously were being produced wearable devices recently. The study analyzed ignition probability by PCM(Protection Circuit Module) operating state and overcharged, over-discharged, exposed to high temperatures of Lithium polymer batteries, analyzing wearable devices on the market. Then it classified experimental results to implement analysis comparison about weight, X-ray imaging, battery decomposition. With these experiments, the study analyzed combustion-possibility and fire patterns. These statistics will be used to measure and verify the cause of a fire when identify wearable devices using Lithium-polymer batteries.