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An Exploratory Study on 3D-based Building Information Management for Multi-User Fire Protection System

  • Kim, Dahee;Cha, Heesung
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1162-1169
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    • 2022
  • As buildings become more and more complicated, the importance of developing and managing facility management information is increasing. In a building fire situation, various information is generated and needed to be quickly shared among participants. However, the current fire response system fails to monitor the relevant information in a real time basis. This study aims to develop a system prototype for fire protection management which can quickly and accurately manage and effectively deliver the pertinent information to the target participants. The research contributes to the efficiency of fire protection endeavors by interpreting both dynamic and static fire information in an appropriate manner.

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A Study on Improvement of Disaster Response System in the Firefighting Organization - Focused on Landslide Case in Sinbuk-eup, Chuncheon-city - (소방의 재난대응체계 개선방안에 관한 연구 - 춘천시 신북읍 산사태 대응사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Ko, Gi-Bong;Lee, Si-Young;Chae, Jin
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.17-31
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    • 2012
  • Regarding the landslide that took place around 00:08 on July 27, 2011, in a village in the city of Chuncheon (Sanjidanggol, Majeoksan, Cheonjeon-ri, Sinbuk-eup, Chuncheon-city, Gangwon-province), this paper surveyed fire-fighting officers who were injected into the site to rescue the disaster, thereby determining the problems surrounding the initial fire-fighting response and improvement measures. As a result, specialist education of volunteer fire-fighters and utilization, improvement measures included the early response ability enhancement of and cooperation between relevant agencies, the strengthening of specialist education about landslide response, the strengthening of situation management and field command system, the installation and operation of speedy field emergency infirmary, the operation of an appropriate volunteer waiting facility, the operation of an appropriate control lines, appropriate control of media, a sufficient securing of individuals' rescue equipment and fuel for heavy equipment, the provision of sufficient portable radios and chargers, the securing of fire-fighting budget thereof.

Methods for Nonlinear Structural Response Analysis of Offshore Structures with Passive Fire Protection under Fires (해양플랜트 구조물의 화재 사고 시 PFP 효과를 고려한 비선형 구조응답 해석 기법에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Jeong Hwan;Lee, Dong Hun;Ha, Yeon Chul;Kim, Bong Ju;Seo, Jung Kwan;Paik, Jeom Kee
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.294-305
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    • 2014
  • In offshore structures, fire is one of the most important hazardous events. The concern of fires has recently been reflected in the rules and quantified risk assessment based design practice. Within the framework of quantified risk assessment and the management of offshore installations, therefore, more refined computations of the consequences or hazardous action effects due to fire are required. To mitigate fire risk, passive fire protection(PFP) is widely used on offshore structures. This study presents methods for a nonlinear structural response analysis considering the PFP effects under fires. It is found that a structural response analysis is most likely to use valuable technology for the optimization and design of offshore structures with PFP. Thermal and structural response analyses have been performed using LS-DYNA and FAHTS/USFOS. The results of these structural response analyses are compared with each other.

A Study on Evaluation System Development for Unexpected Scenarios Fire-Fighting Drill (무각본소방훈련 평가시스템 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Seung-Il;Lim, Jeong-Won;Kim, Jae-Kyeong;Kim, Jun-Woo
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.110-117
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    • 2018
  • This study aims to overcome the problems of existing fire fighting drills and build a practical and effective fire fighting drill system to enhance emergency response capabilities. The unexpected scenarios fire fighting drill is to conduct drills with no scenarios and draw conclusions with quantified outcomes in real time, which provides the object evaluation system. The unexpected scenarios fire fighting drill is based on the IoT sensor-based drill evaluation system to suit individual requirement of drilling spots. This study also includes drill field test conducted to examine the applicability of the evaluation system for quantified outcomes. It is considered that the evaluation system of this paper will contribute to systematization and quantification of fire fighting drill, raise trainees' safety consciousness, and ultimately increase the actual fire fighting response capabilities.

Response Time Index and Suppression Capability of Standard and Quick Response Sprinkler Head (표준형 및 속동형 스프링클러헤드의 반응시간지수와 소화성능)

  • 정길순;이병곤
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.59-70
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    • 1998
  • In this study, response time index(RTI) of standard and quick response type sprinkler head are measured and compared through ramp and plunge test in heated wind tunnel. Also discharge rate and water distribution, actual delivered density(ADD), fire test with wood cribs are performed to compare the fire suppression capability and the operation time and temperature between standard and quick response type sprinkler head.

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A Numerical Investigation on Restrained High Strength Q460 Steel Beams Including Creep Effect

  • Wang, Weiyong;Zhang, Linbo;He, Pingzhao
    • International journal of steel structures
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.1497-1507
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    • 2018
  • Most of previous studies on fire resistance of restrained steel beams neglected creep effect due to lack of suitable creep model. This paper presents a finite element model (FEM) for accessing the fire resistance of restrained high strength Q460 steel beams by taking high temperature Norton creep model of steel into consideration. The validation of the established model is verified by comparing the axial force and deflection of restrained beams obtained by finite element analysis with test results. In order to explore the creep effect on fire response of restrained Q460 steel beams, the thermal axial force and deflection of the beams are also analyzed excluding creep effect. Results from comparison infer that creep plays a crucial role in fire response of restrained steel beam and neglecting the effect of creep may lead to unsafe design. A set of parametric studies are accomplished by using the calibrated FEM to evaluate the governed factors influencing fire response of restrained Q460 steel beams. The parametric studies indicate that load level, rotational restraint stiffness, span-depth ratio, heating rate and temperature distribution pattern are key factors in determining fire resistance of restrained Q460 steel beam. A simplified design approach to determine the moment capacity of restrained Q460 steel beams is proposed based on the parametric studies by considering creep effect.

Evaluating fire resistance of prestressed concrete bridge girders

  • Zhang, Gang;Kodur, Venkatesh;Hou, Wei;He, Shuanhai
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.62 no.6
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    • pp.663-674
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    • 2017
  • This paper presents an approach for evaluating performance of prestressed concrete (PC) bridge girders exposed to fire. A finite element based numerical model for tracing the response of fire exposed T girders is developed in ANSYS. The analysis is carried out in three stages, namely, fire temperature calculation, cross sectional temperature evaluation, and then strength, deformation and effective prestress analysis on girders exposed to elevated temperatures. The applicability of the computer program in tracing the response of PC bridge girders from the initial preloading stage to failure stage, due to combined effects of fire and structure loading, is demonstrated through a case study, and validated by test data of a scaled PC box girder under ISO834 fire condition. Results from the case study show that fire severity has a significant influence on the fire resistance of PC T girders and hydrocarbon fire is most dangerous for the girder. The prestress loss caused by elevated temperature is about 10% under hydrocarbon fire till the girder failure, which can lead to the increase in deflection of the PC girder. The rate of deflection failure criterion is suggested to determine the failure of PC T girder under fire.

Latent Profile Analysis of High School Students' Fire Safety Awareness

  • Lee, Soon-Beom;Kim, Eun-Mi;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.124-133
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of latent profiles of high school students' fire safety awareness and to identify the characteristics of related variables. For this purpose, a survey was conducted from March 22 to May 25, 2021 for 1054 high school students (male; 569, female; 485) in 3 cities, in Jeollabuk-do. The latent profile was analyzed using a scale consisting of 4 sub-factors: 'fire prevention', 'fire preparedness', 'indirect fire response', and 'direct fire response'. It was checked whether there were differences according to the inter-individual differences of the latent group. As a result of the analysis, fire safety awareness of high school students was classified into three latent profiles. The three groups were named 'High Perception Type', 'Moderate Perception Type', and 'Low Perception Type' according to their types. In fire safety awareness, there is a significant difference in the individual differences according to the gender and academic achievement of the latent profile. These results are meaningful as the first study to analyze the latent profile of high school students' fire safety awareness, and it is also meaningful to provide a useful basis for the contents and methods of customized fire safety education by identifying the tendencies of spontaneous groups and their fire safety awareness.

An Experimental Study on Characteristics of Sprinkler Head Activation in Low Growth Rate Fire (저성장속도 화재에서의 스프링클러 헤드 동작특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Choi, Yong-Seob;Yoon, Jong-Chil
    • 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.