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Airborne Sound Insulation Performance of Window and Indoor Noise Level in the Balcony Expanded Apartments

  • Park, Hyeon Ku
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.61-67
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The balcony in the apartment is important space not only as a fire escape but also as a buffer for heat and sound insulation. However, with the legalization of balcony expansion for residential apartments in Korea in 2006, many households have eliminated the balcony space altogether to increase the inner space, often without sufficient consideration for the effects on the indoor environment. This study examined the sound insulation performance of exterior-facing windows in enclosed balconies and the changes in the indoor acoustic environment due to expansion to provide a basis for appropriate balcony expansion. The apartments for the field test were chosen where two balcony types can be compared, and the sound insulation performance for the eighteen balcony windows was measured. The windows installed were typical double window with thickness 16 mm or 22 mm. Measurements of the weighted standard sound pressure level difference showed a decrease of about 3 dB in sound insulation performance due to expansion. For common exterior noise levels of 70-85 dB(A), the indoor noise level can exceed 45 dB(A), the limit level regulated in Korea. However, it was found that the sound insulation performance of the window and the quality of the construction have more influence on indoor noise levels than balcony expansion itself.

Smoke Movement Characteristics in the Ship's Indoor Spaces with Fire Size and Location (선박 실내공간에서 화재의 크기 및 위치에 따른 연기거동특성)

  • Han, Won-Hui;Cho, Dae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.11 no.1 s.22
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 2005
  • It is very dongerous for ship‘s fire which occurs from navigating because of it will not be able to expect fire fighting from land so that handle with the oneself to control. Additionally, in the case of passenger ship is more serious for the reason of not only the property damage but also large life accident can be occurred continuously. When the fire occurs, the many smoke to occur simultaneously as well as the heat from combustion process and the poisonous smoke is brought the life damage as the death from suffocation The purpose of this study is to examine the smoke movement characteristics in the ship's indoor spaces with fire size and location An experimental study was carried out with two sized of fires and three typed of fire source locations. As the results, the smoke and heat diffusion characteristics Ms been showed the most quick rise curve in the case of comer type fire.

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A Study on the Improvement for Sensitivity Test of Flame Detectors (불꽃화재감지기의 시험기준 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Dong-Hyun
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.58-61
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    • 2014
  • Flame detectors has been used more than heat & smoke detector, because this is more effective to catch fire and ceiling height in spite of high price. For upgrade to flame detector, Compare to national or abroad standard about performance test, sensitivity test, sectioning indoor or outdoor, after service and management. As a result, Europe and America have only sensitivity test, no have not operation test and sectioning indoor & outdoor. In performance test, action is put to focus to credit and durability, Not operation test is to be able to tune the sensitivity to match the environment of the site. Also, we need code about aftercare, quality assurance responsibility and implement special detector institution by Certificate Authority implement.

Mobile Guidance System for Evacuation based on Wi-Fi System and Node Architecture

  • Raju, Timalsina;Kim, Woo Sung
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.41-56
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    • 2019
  • Recently great loss of life and property is occurring because of fire, natural disaster, earth quake, tsunami and so on. People spend 80~90% of their time indoor environment like office, supermarket, campus. Therefore Indoor navigation and guidelines system became so essential for most of all. Incase of emergency we must be careful earlier, in such a cases 5G kind of new technology may also cannot work. So immediate action and quick routing notification for guidelines and protection is the most. Considering this issue We proposed indoor evacuating guidance system based on microcontroller Wi-Fi board for Indoor APP using mobile. Focusing various kind of technology like, ok google, voice search APP we purposed node architecture based system. When we listen fire alarm while living inside the room. Then to be safe we connect with server and start Arduino UNO+IoT ESP8266 Wi-Fi shield version1-IoT module to store data in MySQL DB server. We make application to escape out from the building up-to the three exits giving information from source point to destination. Our program can send information to the users emergency location and situations. For this when the user get sound or vibration in their mobile device it indicate fire out near by. At that time we update message from Arduino to DB server for the fixed current position inside the building which give routing signal for that fire out location by changing values from 0 to 1. We have user in point 10 where user is near by. Later we detect Wi-Fi signal form Nodemcu as room of each floor and try to connect with user. Main purpose of this paper is to save life of people in short time and find out the shortest path up to nearest exits in the time of emergencies and rescue them.

The Evaluation of UWB Wireless Communication Position Determination Function in an Enclosed Space for Fire Fighting (소방활동을 위한 밀폐공간 무선통신 측위성능 평가)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Chung-Il
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2017
  • The absence of fire fighters' connection to communication can bring about increased loss of life due to errors and delays in rescue and actions and danger to their own safety. Therefore, when communication infrastructure has been destroyed in an enclosed space, it is necessary to set up an emergency wire or wireless telecommunication environment to fire fighting and to secure safer environment to deal with the disaster by checking the location of fire fighters. In this research, for the establishment communication environment in an enclosed inside using Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) wireless communication network, the performance of communication position determination of a single UWB communication module was evaluated regarding 6 kinds of indoor surroundings. When the communication distance in an indoor environment of each 6 channels bandwidth of UWB communication frequency was measured, the results were as follows: the open space (Ave. 15.5 m, Max. 20 m), the corridor (Ave. 17.33 m, Max 20 m), inside retaining home furnishings (Ave. 15.3 m, Max. 20 m), vertical stairs (Ave. 4.33 m, Max. 6 m), horizontal space with a closed fire door (Ave. 6.5 m, Max. 17 m). It was also found out that the communication function and the distance function were best in the frequency range from 6489.6 to 1081.6 MHz by 7 Ch. Accordingly, the establishment of communication environment in an enclosed space is judged to be possible when UWB communication module is set up at 20 m apart and multiple channels are used.

A Study on Perfomance Based Evacuation Plan for a Large Indoor-Arena (대규모 실내경기장의 성능위주 방재계획에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Yong-Seok;Kim, Hyung-Keun;Lee, Kyoo-Il
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.687-698
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    • 2011
  • In this study, it was analyzed by a numerical analysis that plan/design considerations for ensuring the spectator safety of large arena audiences in a fire emergency evacuation plan. The latest issue, the 'performance-based design', fire and evacuation plan is important. But nowadays 'Specification-based design' is in common. In evacuation simulation, congestion of exit and aisle is ignored because only evacuation time of large-space is mainly analyzed. In smoke flow,'smoke filling effect' tends to be overrated. From now on, when design a field house, it is needed not 'smoke filling effect' and 'large-space evacuation' analysis, but analyzing 'whole building evacuation time' for ensuring fire evacuation safety of spectator.

Strategy of Energy Saving and Thermal Environment Improvement for Intermittent Heating System in Apartment Buildings (공동주택 간헐난방시스템의 에너지 절감 및 열환경 개선방안 연구)

  • Ahn Byung-Cheon;Lee Tae-Won
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.88-93
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    • 2005
  • In this study, the operational characteristics on heating performance and energy consumption for intermittent hot water heating system in apartment buildings were research by simulation. The effects of apartment inlet hot water temperature and operation time per day on energy consumption and indoor thermal environment are investigated. The strategy of energy saving and thermal environment improvement is suggested in comparison with the existing ones.

Smoke Movement Characteristics in the Ship's Indoor Spaces with Fire Size and Location (선박 실내공간에서 화재의 크기 및 위치에 따른 연기거동특성)

  • Han Won-Hui;Cho Dae-Hwan
    • Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2005
  • It is very dangerous for ship‘s fire which occurs from navigating because of it will not be able to expect fire fighting from land so that handle with the oneself to control. Additionally, in the case of passenger ship is more serious for the reason of not only the properly damage but also large life accident can be occurred continuously. When the fire occurs, the many smoke to occur simultaneously as well as the heat from combustion process and the poisonous smoke is brought the life damage as the death from suffocation. The purpose of this study is to examine the smoke movement characteristics in the ship's indoor spaces with fire size and location An experimental study was carried out with two sized of fires and three typed of fire source locations. As the result of it, the smoke and heat diffusion characteristics has been showed the most quick rise curve in the case of comer type fire.

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An Experimental Study on the Operating Characteristics with HVAC Type of Shopping Center in Underground Passage (지하도상가의 HVAC 구성방식에 따른 운전특성 연구)

  • Lee, Hong-Cheol;Hwang, In-Ju
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.76-81
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    • 2007
  • The shopping center in underground passage increased for efficient space utilization in urban area. This study describes operation characteristics of all air type and hybrid type with local ventilation and fan coil unit fixed to ceiling. In order to compare energy saving, thermal environment and installation space, etc., integrated simulator with heat production and indoor distribution system is designed and constructed. Energy saving of the hybrid system is calculated as over 30% compared to conventional all air type. And also the results showed that humidity decreased about 6%, also indoor thermal distribution is improved as temperature variation of around $1^{\circ}C$.

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Study on Modeling and Simulation for Fire Localization Using Bayesian Estimation (화원 위치 추정을 위한 베이시안 추정 기반의 모델링 및 시뮬레이션 연구)

  • Kim, Taewan;Kim, Soo Chan;Kim, Jong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.58 no.6
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    • pp.424-430
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    • 2021
  • Fire localization is a key mission that must be preceded for an autonomous fire suppression system. Although studies using a variety of sensors for the localization are actively being conducted, the fire localization is still unfinished due to the high cost and low performance. This paper presents the modeling and simulation of the fire localization estimation using Bayesian estimation to determine the probabilistic location of the fire. To minimize the risk of fire accidents as well as the time and cost of preparing and executing live fire tests, a 40m × 40m-virtual space is created, where two ultraviolet sensors are simulated to rotate horizontally to collect ultraviolet signals. In addition, Bayesian estimation is executed to compute the probability of the fire location by considering both sensor errors and uncertainty under fire environments. For the validation of the proposed method, sixteen fires were simulated in different locations and evaluated by calculating the difference in distance between simulated and estimated fire locations. As a result, the proposed method demonstrates reliable outputs, showing that the error distribution tendency widens as the radial distance between the sensor and the fire increases.