• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2024

Fire, being primarily a natural phenomenon, is impossible to control, although it is feasible to map the forest fire risk zone, minimizing the frequency of fires. The spread of a fire starting in any stand in a forest can be predicted, given the burning conditions. The natural cover of the land and the safety of the population may be threatened by the spread of forest fires; thus, the prevention of fire damage requires early discovery. Satellite data and geographic information system (GIS) can be used effectively to combine different forest-fire-causing factors for mapping the forest fire risk zone. This study mainly focuses on mapping forest fire risk in the Madikhola watershed. The primary causes of forest fires appear to be human negligence, uncontrolled fire in nearby forests and agricultural regions, and fire for pastoral purposes which were used to evaluate and assign risk values to the mapping process. The majority of fires, according to MODIS events, occurred from December to April, with March recording the highest occurrences. The Risk Zonation Map, which was prepared using LULC, Forest Type, Slope, Aspect, Elevation, Road Proximity, and Proximity to Water Bodies, showed that a High Fire Risk Zone comprised 29% of the Total Watershed Area, followed by a Moderate Risk Zone, covering 37% of the total area. The derived map products are helpful to local forest managers to minimize fire risks within the forests and take proper responses when fires break out. This study further recommends including the fuel factor and other fire-contributing factors to derive a higher resolution of the fire risk map.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.352-355
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• 2018

Hazardous work zones (i.e., hot, warm, and cold) are typically established by emergency response teams during hazardous materials (HAZMAT) calls but less consistently for fire responses to segment personnel and response activities in the immediate geographic area around the fire. Despite national guidelines, studies have documented the inconsistent use of respiratory protective equipment by firefighters at the fire scene. In this case-series report, we describe warm zone gas levels using multigas detectors across five independent fire incident responses all occurring in a large South Florida fire department. Multigas detector data collected at each fire response indicate the presence of sustained levels of volatile organic compounds in the "warm zone" of each fire event. These cases suggest that firefighters should not only implement strategies for multigas detector use within the warm zone but also include respiratory protection to provide adequate safety from toxic exposures in the warm zone.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 1997년도 International Symposium on Fire Science and Technology
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• pp.413-422
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• 1997

Fire characteristics of a typical apartment building in Korea was studied through full scale experiment and zone model simulation. The fire was ignited at the living room and allowed to spread to other parts of a single unit in a five storied apartment building. Various data including temperatures, species concentrations, and images were collected in the experiment. A zone model(CFAST) was used to analyze the same apartment building that represents the average households in Korea. The results were compared with a full scale experiments. While CFAST allows one compartment involved with fire, the experiment allowed the fire to spread to other compartments. Therefore, the comparison between experimental data and Zone-Model data is valid until the living-room fire spread to other parts of the apartment. Flashover occurred at approximately 380 seconds in a fire experiment, and at approximately 420 seconds in Zone-Model. Based on all of data between experimental data and Zone-Model data, it is concluded that the safe escape time is about 250 seconds.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.25-33
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• 1997

화재 위험성올 조사하기위해 우리나라의 주거형태에서 가장 보편적인 공동주태을 사용하여 실물 화 재실험을 하였다. 화재 실험에서는 우리나라의 실제 생활에 사용되는 가구와 가연성물질풍을 사용하여 우리나라의 현실에 적합한 화재 위험성을 명가해 보았다. 이 실험에서 얻은 결과를 C-FAST라는 해석 모텔올 사용하여 얻은 예측치와 비교하였다. C-F AST의 제한성때문에 거실에서 발생한 화재에 대해서 만 결과를 비교해보았다. 실물 화재실험에서는 flash-over가 약 380초 경에 Zone-Model에서는 약 420 초 경에 발생하는 것으로 예측되었다. 그 외의 모든 실험 결과와 예측 결과에 의해 피난시간을 도출하 면 화재 실험과 Zone-Model 모두에서 250초 이내에 피난해야 한다는 결론을 얻었다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.55-64
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• 1997

Pool fire는 본격적인 화재연구의 시작과 더불어 그 구조 및 특성에 대한 연구가 지속적으로 수행되어 왔다. Pool fire는 복잡하고 취급하기 어려운 화재의 제문제들을 비교적 간단하게 다룰수 있게 하면서도 현실과 괴리되지 않는 형태를 가지는 가장 기본적인 형태의 화재로, 학문적 측면뿐 아니라 응용측면에서도 매우 유용한 결과 및 단서를 제공하여 왔다. 따라서, 본고에서는 pool fire의 특성을 화염기저(flame base)부근과 플륨(plume)부근으로 나누어 그 동안 발표되었던 연구결과를 정리하고, 화재 시뮬레이션을 위한 zone 모델기법의 가장 중요한 부분의 하나인 연기량 산정과 플륨해석이 어떤 형태로 연결되는 지를 설명하고자 한다.

• 한국산업안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국안전학회 1997년도 추계 학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.43-48
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• 1997

아트리움 공간에서 화재 발생시 연기 유동에 대하여 두 가지 형태의 화재 모델인 zone 모델과 field 모델을 이용하여 시뮬레이션 했다. 사용된 zone model은 NIST에서 개발된 CFAST(version 1.6) 모델이며 field 모델은 전산유체역학 이론을 바탕으로 자체 개발된 화재 모델이다. 본 연구는 정육면체 모양의 아트리움 공간에서 연기 유동과 온도 분포에 대하여 해석하고자 한다. 화재로 인해 야기된 유동에 대하여 속도장과 은도장을 예측하기 위한 계산 과정은 유한체적법 및 비엇갈림격자계를 이용하여 질량, 운동량, 에너지 및 성분 보존 방정식등에 대한 3차원 비정상상태 지배방정식을 사용했다. 수치해석 결과 zone 모델과 field 모델의 화재 모델에 의해 예측된 연기 층 평균 경계놀이와 상부 더운 연기 층의 평균 온도에 대하여 거의 유사한 결과를 얻었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제69권2호
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• pp.193-204
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• 2019

This paper presents results from experimental and numerical studies on the response of steel-concrete composite box bridge girders under certain localized fire exposure conditions. Two composite box bridge girders, a simply supported girder and a continuous girder respectively, were tested under simultaneous loading and fire exposure. The simply supported girder was exposed to fire over 40% of its span length in the middle zone, and the two-span continuous girder was exposed to fire over 38% of its length of the first span and full length of the second span. A measurement method based on comparative rate of deflection was provided to predict the failure time in the hogging moment zone of continuous composite box bridge girders under certain localized fire exposure condition. Parameters including transverse and longitudinal stiffeners and fire scenarios were introduced to investigate fire resistance of the composite box bridge girders. Test results show that failure of the simply supported girder is governed by the deflection limit state, whereas failure of the continuous girder occurs through bending buckling of the web and bottom slab in the hogging moment zone. Deflection based criterion may not be reliable in evaluating failure of continuous composite box bridge girder under certain fire exposure condition. The fire resistance (failure time) of the continuous girder is higher than that of the simply supported girder. Data from fire tests is successfully utilized to validate a finite element based numerical model for further investigating the response of composite box bridge girders exposed to localized fire. Results from numerical analysis show that fire resistance of composite box bridge girders can be highly influenced by the spacing of longitudinal stiffeners and fire severity. The continuous composite box bridge girder with closer longitudinal stiffeners has better fire resistance than the simply composite box bridge girder. It is concluded that the fire resistance of continuous composite box bridge girders can be significantly enhanced by preventing the hogging moment zone from exposure to fire. Longitudinal stiffeners with closer spacing can enhance fire resistance of composite box bridge girders. The increase of transverse stiffeners has no significant effect on fire resistance of composite box bridge girders.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.70-76
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• 1998

The smoke filling process for the atrium space containing a fire source is simulated using two types of deterministic fire models : Zone model and Field model. The zone model used is the CFAST(version 1.6) model developed at the Building and Fire Research Laboratories, NIST in the USA. The field model is a self-developed fire field model based on Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) theories. This article is focused on finding out the smoke movement and temperature distribution in atrium space which is cubic in shape. A computational procedure for predicting velocity and temperature distribution in fire-induced flow is based on the solution, in finite volume method and non-staggered grid system, of 3-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, energy, species and so forth. The fire model i. e. Zone model and Field model predicted similar results for the clear height and the smoke layer temperature.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2022년도 봄 학술논문 발표대회
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• pp.83-84
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• 2022

In Korea, smoke control measures through NFSC 501 are proposed to reduce human casualties caused by smoke in the event of a fire. However, as a result of investigating and analyzing domestic and foreign standards, it was found that domestic regulations do not set fire source, but simply set smoke emissions by floor area or height of smoke boundary. Foreign regulations set fire source. Therefore, it is judged that it is necessary to review whether the current domestic regulations can be applied in the event of an actual building fire. So, this paper aims to identify the differences in domestic and foreign standards through investigation and analysis of related standards for fire zone smoke control system in each country and use them as basic data to improve the performance of zone smoke control system.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.3-14
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• 1997

The smoke filling process for the atrium space containing a fire source is simulated using two types of deterministic fire model : Zone model and Field model. The zone model used is the CFAST(version 1.6) model developed at the Building and Fire Research Laboratories, NIST in the USA. The field model is a self-developed frie field model based on Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) theories. This article is focused on finding out the smoke movement and temperature distribution in atrium space which is cubic in shape. For solving the liked set of velocity and pressure equation, the PISO algorithm, which strengthened the velocity-pressure coupling, was used. Since PISO algorithm is a time-marching procedure, computing time si very fast. A computational procedure for predicting velocity and temperature distribution in fire-induced flow is based on the solution, in finite volume method and non-staggered grid system, of 3-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass, momentum, energy, species and so forth. The fire model i.e Zone model and Field model predicted similar results for clear heights and the smoke layer temperature.