• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 1997년도 International Symposium on Fire Science and Technology
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• pp.138-145
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• 1997

Models of upward flame spread have been attempted in the past, but in the current work an emphasis has been placed on developing a practical model that will be useful across a broad range of materials. Some of the important aspects of the model we: the addition of external radiation to simulate a wall that is a part of an enclosure fire and has flaming walls radiating to it, the use of a correlation for flame heat feedback distribution to the sample surface based on data available in the literature, and the use of an experimentally measured mass loss rate for the sample material, In this paper, the development of the numerical model is presented along with predictions of flame spread for three materials: hardboard, a relatively homogeneous wood-based material; plywood, which is made of laminated wood bonded by adhesives; and a composite material made of fiberglass matrix embedded in epoxy. Predictions are compared with measured data at several levels of external radiation for each material. For the materials tested, the model correctly predicts trends and does a reasonable job predicting flame heights. The need for thermal property data for practical materials, which would be appropriate for flame spread models, is indicated by this work.

• Geosystem Engineering
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.282-290
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• 2018

The onset of extreme fire behaviour in a mine drift with longitudinal ventilation was analysed. A fire in a mine drift with continuous fuel load, involving several separate fires may lead to flames tilted horizontally and filling up the entire cross section. This will lead to earlier ignition, higher fire growth rate, higher fire spread rate and a severe fire behaviour. The focus has been on what changes take place at the onset and signs of the impending phenomenon. It was found that the fire gas temperature at the ceiling level provided a poor indicator. At the downstream far-field region of the fire, the sudden temperature increase at the lowest levels of the cross section and the sudden increase in flow velocities would provide signs of extreme fire behaviour. The corresponding full-scale heat release rates of the experiments at the onset of extreme fire behaviour were found to be very high for mining applications but not necessarily for tunnel fires. The heat release rate threshold for a mine drift with smaller cross-sectional dimensions would decrease considerably, increasing the likelihood of occurrence. The distance between the fuel items will play an important role during the initiation of horizontal flames.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 2005년도 춘계학술논문발표회 논문집
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• pp.7-11
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• 2005

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.65-70
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• 2012

This study was performed to test the combustive properties of the pipe insulation materials which are mainly used in the industries and buildings. Fire characteristic test of pipe insulation film according to the KS F ISO 5660-1 was performed. The experimental materials commonly used in the pipe insulation were used four kinds of films. Two kinds of 4 types of products that have the flame retardant performance and the other two types of them have no flame retardant performance. They were selected for fire characteristic test. The result of finding 25kW/$m^2$ radiation from the ignition was that flame retardant products were 140sec and the other one were 69sec in average of heat release rate(HRR). The result of flame retardant products in the 50kW/$m^2$ was 34sec and the other one were 15sec in average of HRR. However, the HRR of flame retardant products was much higher than the other one. Flame propagation test was conducted according to the KOFEIS 1001. The result of flame retardant products was that flame retardant products had a hold without fire spread after firing them. But the other one were completely fired after firing them. Therefore, I want to recommend that flame retardant products need to be used by the regulation to prevent or decrease a fire spread.

• 한국화재소방학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국화재소방학회 1997년도 International Symposium on Fire Science and Technology
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• pp.146-153
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• 1997

An experimental study was performed of natural-convection downward smolder spread across a sawdust bed peripherally enclosed with an insulating container, to examine the effect of the open- ing condition at the top end on downward smolder spread. Experiments were conducted by using relatively coarse sawdust and 25-cm-long cylindrical container The variations of temperature profiles along the bed axis with time were determined far different opening conditions and were com-pared with those in smolder spread from open top to open bottom. It was shown that the smolder zone initiated from open top toward closed bottom penetrates the bed with keeping high peak temperature like the case of open top to open bottom spread, although mean spread rate is smaller. This indicates that the downward smolder zone can be sustained stably if sufficient air or oxygen Is supplied from the back of it by natural convection even if upward draft entering from the bottom of the bed is absent. When the top end was partially closed by mounting a cover after stable smolder spread had begun from open top toward open bottom, the temperature at the peak decreased more than 200 K and the smolder zone became to spread with thickening residue. In this case, the shape of temperature profiles continuously changed or decayed until end-effect at the open bottom end enhanced the reaction. The temperature at the shrunk peak, free from the end-effect, was almost identical with the temperature at the exothermic oxidative-degradation zone in smolder spread from open top to open bottom. from these results, it can be inferred for natural-convection downward smolder spread that the oxidation reaction of the char is very sensitive to the oxygen supply by natural convection in the space above the smolder zone, and that the top end opening condition strongly alters the completeness of reactions, structure, and behavior of the smolder zone.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2006

Recently, the application of transverse ventilation system with oversized exhaust ports has been increased in bidirectional road tunnel in order to improve smoke exhaust ability. Therefore, in this study, for decision of the optimal smoke exhaust rates in the transverse ventilation system, several standards of nations are compared and numerical simulations with variations of exhaust flow rates are carried out in terms of smoke spread distance by FDS ver. 3.1. As results, in the case of no internal longitudinal air velocity in tunnel, the smoke exhaust rate of $80m^{3}/s$ (the smoke generation rate at HRR of 20MW) is sufficient enough to limit the smoke spread within 250m in 6 minutes after the fire. However, in the case of the internal longitudinal air velocity at 2.5m/s, the smoke exhaust rate should be increased $130m^{3}/s$.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.120-129
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• 2009

건축물 화재에서는 발화물과 주변 가연물이 소실하기 때문에 화재현장 조사만으로 출화원인을 규명하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구는 현장조사와 화재실험을 통해 화재의 원인과 확대과정을 추정하는 방법에 관하여 고찰하였다. 본 연구에서는 화재원인 불명으로 판단된 공동주택의 화재사례를 대상으로 현장의 잔존물에서 출화장소와 초기연소물을 추정하고, 출화물로 추정된 가연물을 대상으로 연소실험을 실행하여 출화원인 등을 추정하였다. 화재실험에서는 가연물의 종류 및 배치 등을 출화이전의 상태로 재현하고 출화조건을 가정하여 반복적으로 실행하여 연소 후의 상황과 화재현장의 잔존물을 비교함으로써 출화원인 및 초기 화재확대과정을 규명하였다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.48-54
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• 2016

대부분 필로티 구조 건물은 필로티를 통해야만 출입이 가능한 구조이고 주차장으로 사용할 경우 차량이 연쇄적으로 소훼되면서 짧은 시간에 필로티 전체로 확산된다. 연소 하중이 높은 차량과 천장 단열재에서 생성된 뜨거운 열기와 유독가스는 출입문을 파손시키고 건물내부로 유입되어 계단과 승강기 그리고 전선이 지나가는 피트(EPS)와 같은 경로를 통해 건물 상층으로 확대된다. 필로티에서 화재가 발생할 위험성은 다양하다. 만약 이곳에서 화재가 발생할 경우 입주민들은 건물에 갇혀 생존에 위협을 받을 수밖에 없다. 본 연구는 필로티에서 화재가 발생하여 5명이 사망하고 139명의 다친 의정부 아파트 화재 사례를 살펴보고 필로티 구조의 건물의 화재 취약성을 분석하였다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.40-49
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• 2009

철도차량 내장재를 설치한 화재 시험 공간(ISO 9705)에서 대규모 화재시험이 수행되었다. 여기서 사용된 내장재는 2004년 12월에 공포된 철도차량에 대한 안전기준을 만족하는 내장재이다. 화원으로는 가스버너를 이용하였으며 가스버너의 출력은 시간에 따라 증가하도록 설정하였다. 본 시험의 목적은 철도차량 내장재의 화염전파와 발화에 대한 화재 성능 평가이며, 플레시오버로 성장하는 철도차량 내장재를 포함하는 화재에 대한 여러 데이터들의 확보이다. 이 데이터들은 철도차량 내장재의 화재 성장을 예측하는 모델을 검증하고 개발하는데 사용될 것이다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 구획 공간 화재 시 발열량이 급격히 변하는 조건에서 스프링클러헤드의 손실인자 변화에 따른 작동시간을 분석하였다. 이를 위해서 내화보드로 구성된 구획 공간의 크기가 폭 0.3 m, 세로 0.5 m, 길이 3.0 m인 구조물을 제작하고 헵탄(n-Heptane) 풀 화재 실험을 수행하여 구획 공간 내부의 온도 분포, 헵탄의 질량감소율 그리고 발열량을 산출하였다. 또한, Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) Version 6.5를 사용하여 실험 조건과 동일한 발열량을 가정하고 스프링클러헤드의 설치위치 및 손실인자(C-factor) 변화에 따른 작동 시간을 분석하였다. 그 결과 반응시간지수(Response Time Index, RTI)가 $100(m{\cdot}s)^{0.5}$이고 작동온도가 $72^{\circ}C$인 스프링클러는 화원 상층부의 기류 온도가 $100^{\circ}C$에서 $300^{\circ}C$로 상승하고, 기류의 속도가 약 0.7 m/s인 경우 C-factor = 0과 1일 때 스프링클러의 작동시간은 최소 30 s~60 s, C-factor = 3일 때 62 s에서 최대 92 s, C-factor = 5일 때 120 s 이상으로 나타났다.