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Establishment of the Method for Evaluating the Risk of Fire Spread to the Upper Floors due to Ejected Flame from an Opening in the Building Fires (건축물 화재시 개구분출화염으로 인한 상층부로의 화재확대 위험성평가 방법 구축)

  • Shin, Yi-Chul
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2020.06a
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    • pp.216-217
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    • 2020
  • As the fire inside the building grows rapidly, ejected flame from an opening occurs due to flashover. As a result, the number of cases where the flame spreads to the exterior of the building and rapidly expands to the upper floor is increasing. In particular, in the case of the fire in the Daebong Green Apartment, Uijeongbu in 2015, it was a case where the flame spread to adjacent buildings due to the opening eruption flame from the first ignited building, causing great damage to three apartments. Therefore, this study is to introduce an international standard under development that estimates the shape and properties of the ejected flame from an opening and quantitatively evaluates the radiant heat flux received by the exterior wall of the building by assuming the occurrence of the ejected flame from an opening.

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A Numerical Study on Effects of Flow Through Openings on Convection (개구부의 유동이 대류에 미치는 영향에 관한 수치연구)

  • 박외철;이경아
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.52-56
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    • 2000
  • The finite control volume method was utilized to investigate the effects of flow through openings on convection in an enclosure. Flow patterns and temperature distribution were compared for non-dimensional inflow velocity U=20, 40, 60 at Ra=$10^4$ and $5\times10^4$, respectively. The inflow velocity influenced temperature distribution in the enclosure significantly and lowered temperature on the top wall. The flow through openings forced the position of the highest temperature on the top wall to move toward the outflow opening.

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The Ancient Construction Materials and Methods: The Great Wall of China in Jinshanling as a Case Study

  • Yang, Jin;Tan, Fabian Hadipriono;Tan, Adrian
    • Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.37-49
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    • 2017
  • The Jinshanling section of the Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications in northern China that was constructed for strategic military defenses. This section was first built in the beginning of the Ming Dynasty in AD 1368 and then underwent major construction, reconstruction and renovation during the late Ming Dynasty, approximately in AD 1569. The Jinshanling section is 10.5 km long, a very short section compared with the entire 21,200 km wall. The wall section is located in Luanping County, Hebei province, China. This research paper focuses on the construction methods and materials of the wall and the towers in the area. The research methodology includes site visits, knowledge acquisition of experts and 3D graphic modeling. This study reveals that the materials selected for the structure include rubbles and rammed earth, bricks, stones, timber, and mortar. The erection sequence of the wall and the towers was a bottom-up fashion using various ancient construction techniques, such as the fire-setting rock blasting techniques and the surveying techniques from the Sea Island Mathematical Manual.

Analysis of Failure Behavior for Thin Cylinder Pressure Vessel with Corrosion (부식된 얇은 원통 압력용기의 파손 거동 해석)

  • Yoon, Ja-Moon;Choi, Moon-Oh;Ahn, Seok-Hwan;Nam, Ki-Woo;Ando, Katoji
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.230-232
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    • 2006
  • Failure behaviors of thin cylinder with corrosion are very important for the integrity of boiler and pressure vessel system. In this study, FEM with internal pressure are conducted on 1000 mm diameter (length 3000 mm and thickness, 5.9 mm) SS400 carbon steel. Failure behaviors of locally wall thinned cylinders were calculated by elasto-plastic analysis using finite element method. The elasto-plastic analysis was performed by FE code ANSYS. We simulated various types of local wall thinning that can be occurred at cylinder surface due to corrosion. Locally wall thinned shapes were machined to be different in size along the circumferential or axial direction of straight cylinder. In case of local wall thinned length 30 mm, internal pressure, when the crack initiation and the plastic collapse occur, didn't decrease dramatically even though local wall thinned depth was deep. In 400 mm, the more local wall thinned depth is deep, the more internal pressure decreased dramatically. In degraded materials, crack is easily initiation but plastic collapse was difficult.

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Development and Field Test of a Smart-home Gas Safety Management System (스마트 홈 가스안전관리 시스템 개발 및 현장시험)

  • Park, Gyou-Tae;Kim, Eun-Jung;Kim, In-Chan;Kim, Hie-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.128-135
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we proposed a system and a scenario to raise efficiency of gas safety management by developing wireless ZigBee communication modules, smart-home gas safety appliances and the system suitable for gas safety. Our designed system consists of a micom gas meter, an automatic extinguisher, sensors, and a wall-pad. A micom-gas-meter monitors gas flow, gas pressure, and earthquake. An automatic fire extinguisher checks combustible gas leaks and temperature of $100^{\circ}C$(cut off) and $130^{\circ}C$(fire). Sensors measure smoke and CO gas. In our novel system, a micom-gas meter cut off inner valve with warnings, an automatic fire extinguisher cut off middle valve and spray extinguishing materials, and sensors generate signals when detecting smoke and CO and then take a next action. Gas safety appliances and sensors automatically takes measures, and transmit those information to a wall-pad. The wall-pad again transmits real time information to server. Users can check and manage gas safety situations by connecting BcN server through web or mobile application. We hereby devised scenarios for gas safety and risk management based on the smart, and demonstrated their efficiency through test applied to filed.

A study on the Application of Inorganic Reinforced Non-Flammable Molding to Building Exterior (무기계보강 CLC 불연몰딩의 건축물 외벽적용 연구)

  • Kwon, Hae-Won;Gong, Min-Ho;Lee, Chang-Woo;Choi, Byung-Cheol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.61-62
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    • 2021
  • Exterior wall molding, which is widely applied as a design element of the exterior wall of domestic apartment, should be applied as a nonflammable or semi-nonflammable material grade according to the rules on standards for evacuation/fire protection structures of buildings. For this reason, stone and AL sheet are mainly used, but stone is expensive and design autonomy is low. Inorganic reinforced CLC nonflammable molding was applied to the exterior wall of the building through tests of nonflammable performance, noise reduction, and installation stability.

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A Study on Fire Performance Evaluation of EIFS on Anti-Flaming Finish by Cone Calorimeter Test (콘칼로리미터에 의한 외단열시스템의 방염 화재성능평가를 위한 연구)

  • Min, Se-Hong;Sun, Ju-Seok;Kim, Sang-Chul;Choi, Yong-Mook;Lee, Seok-Ki
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.106-111
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    • 2012
  • In this study, EIFS (Exterior insulation finish system) of exterior cladding was applied Cone calorimeter test to confirm the effect of flame retardant. As a results, the initial ignition points in accordance with the coated form and concentration of the flame retardant was delayed. But flame resistant treatment of EIFS cladding to control the fire will not affect confirmed that. In addition, EIFS that uses high-density and low-density due to difference in the density of the impact of the fire was no difference. The exterior of the ignition experiment occurred before and after 40 seconds, heat release rate to 100 seconds appears to occur about 90 % compared with the other exterior wall materials, the initial fire spread very fast was confirmed. EIFS cladding in order to prevent the spread of fire in the application of EIFS legally use is limited by the use of the building. And flame spread can be prevented, such as a vertical outer wall compartment measures are urgently needed.

A Study on the Inland Signal-fire in Chosun Dynasty (조선시대 내지봉수에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Jae-Woong;Lee, Chul-Young
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.47-64
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    • 2009
  • This research was to analyze the inland signal-fire which is the main facility of military protective duty for safety of land in chosun dynasty. The results of this research were described separately as follows. 1. Five types of site plan of signal-fire were observed, which is circle, oval, rectangular, indeterminate form. The majorities were oval type. 2. Plan configuration of brazier which is separated with circle, rectangular type roughly was constructed with circle type generally. The height of brazier was about 3~4.5m. The diameter of brazier was 1.5~2.5m. Building base that protect ground moisture and infilteration of rainfall was found in 5 inland singal-fire, the height of it was about 0.3m~2.5m. 3. The heigh to protective wall remained until present was about 1m, the depth was about average 1.2m. 4. Entrance was mainly stairs or open type and average width was 1.0~1.2m. However the depth was almost observed as 1m, originally, it was estimated it has more depth. 5. The storage of inland signal-fire has rectangular dimension, several types of $1.8{\times}1.2m{\sim}5.7{\times}4.4m$, square(間) of $1{\times}1{\sim}2{\times}1$. The building material was stone and located below or near the brazier.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Pool Fire (Pool 화재의 연소 특성에 관한 연구)

  • 오규형;나선종;이성은
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.39-44
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    • 2004
  • This study is intended to understand flame behavior of the pool fire. Liquid fuels were acetone, methanol, hexane and heptane which are used in many industries. Diameter of vessel was varied from 50 mm to 400 mm and the vessel was made by stainless steel and copper. Combustion time, temperature of vessel wall and heat flux of flame were measured, and flame behavior was visualized with video camera. Based on the experiment, it was found that the burning velocity and flame height was increased according to increase of vessel diameter, and vortex shedding frequency was inverse proportion to vessel diameter. And the characteristics of pool fire were affected by physical and chemical properties of liquid fuel and the vessel materials.

THE EXAMINATION OF ACCURACY OF FIRE-DRIVEN FLOW SIMULATION IN TUNNEL EQUIPPED WITH VENTILATION (환기가 있는 터널에서의 화재유동 해석의 정확성에 대한 고찰)

  • Jang, Yong-Jun;Lee, Chang-Hyun;Kim, Hag-Beom;Jung, Woo-Sung
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.115-122
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    • 2009
  • Numerical methods are applied to simulate the smoke behavior in a ventilated tunnel using large eddy simulation (LES) which is incorporated in FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) with proper combustion and radiation model. In this study, present numerical results are compared with data obtained from experiments on pool fires in a ventilated tunnel. The model tunnel is $182m(L){\times}5.4m(W){\times}2.4m(H)$. Two fire scenarios with different ventilation rates are considered with two different fire strengths. The present results are analyzed with those from LES without combustion and radiation model and from RANS ($\kappa-\epsilon$) model as well. Temperature distributions caused by fire in tunnel are compared with each other. It is found that thermal stratification and smoke back-layer can be predicted by FDS and the temperature predictions by FDS show better results than LES without combustion and radiation model. The FDS solver, however, failed to predict correct flow pattern when the high ventilation rate is considered in tunnel because of the defects in the tunnel-inlet turbulence and the near-wall turbulence.