• 벤처창업연구
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.253-260
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 화재 시뮬레이션인 FDS와 피난 시뮬레이션인 Pathfinder를 이용하여 건물의 중앙제어실을 화재발생 지점으로 설정하여 화재안전성 평가 연구를 수행하였다. 먼저 화재시뮬레이션을 이용하여 시간의 경과에 따른 가시거리 분포, 온도분포, CO의 농도분포 등의 정량적 결과를 도출 하였으며, 이 결과를 토대로 피난시뮬레이션을 실시하여 재실자들의 피난시간을 계산함으로써 최종적인 피난안전성 평가 결과를 도출하였다. 화재 시뮬레이션 결과 가시거리의 분포에 따라 위험도가 증가하기 때문에 이 값을 이용하여 피난시뮬레이션을 실시하였으며 그 결과 최종적으로 127.9초에 모든 인원이 대피하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 수치해석 결과 건물 내 모든 장소에서 피난 소요시간이 피난 허용시간을 초과하지 않는 것으로 분석됨에 따라 대피자의 안전성이 확보되는 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 안전성 평가의 결과는 최악의 조건인 소방설비의 미작동에 근거한 종합안전성평가로서 실제 화재 발생 시 소방설비와 연계한다면 보다 우수한 피난안전성능이 확보될 것으로 평가할 수 있다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.209-217
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• 2024

Recent years have seen a notable increase in fire incidents in university cafeterias, yet the social attention to these occurrences remains limited. Despite quick responses to these incidents preventing loss of life, the need for large-scale evacuation in such high foot traffic areas can cause significant disruptions, economic losses, and panic among students. The potential for stampedes and unpredictable damage during inadequate evacuations underscores the importance of fire safety and evacuation research in these settings. Previous studies have explored evacuation models in various university environments, emphasizing the influence of environmental conditions, personal characteristics, and behavioral patterns on evacuation efficiency. However, research specifically focusing on university cafeterias is scarce. This paper addresses this gap by employing Pathfinder software to analyze fire spread and evacuation safety in a university cafeteria. Pathfinder, an advanced emergency evacuation assessment system, offers realistic 3D simulations, crucial for intuitive and scientific evacuation analysis. The studied cafeteria, encompassing three floors and various functional areas, often exceeds a capacity of 1500 people, primarily students, during peak times. The study includes constructing a model of the cafeteria in Pathfinder and analyzing evacuation scenarios under different fire outbreak conditions on each floor. The paper sets standard safe evacuation criteria (ASET > RSET) and formulates three distinct evacuation scenarios, considering different fire outbreak locations and initial evacuation times on each floor. The simulation results reveal the impact of the fire's location and the evacuation preparation time on the overall evacuation process, highlighting that fires on higher floors or longer evacuation preparation times tend to reduce overall evacuation time.In conclusion, the study emphasizes a multifaceted approach to improve evacuation safety and efficiency in educational settings. Recommendations include expanding staircase widths, optimizing evacuation routes, conducting regular drills, strengthening command during evacuations, and upgrading emergency facilities. The use of information and communication technology for managing emergencies is also suggested. These measures collectively form a comprehensive framework for ensuring safety in educational institutions during fire emergencies.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.328-334
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• 2024

This study uses Pathfinder software to simulate and analyze the safe evacuation of university dormitory occupants. Fire safety issues in densely populated dormitory buildings are gaining increasing attention, and improving emergency evacuation efficiency is crucial for reducing the harm caused by fire incidents. The study focuses on a student dormitory building in a university, simulating different evacuation scenarios and analyzing the impact of factors such as evacuation routes, personnel distribution, exit width, and stair width on evacuation time. Based on the actual dormitory conditions, parameters such as gender ratio, height range, shoulder width, and walking speed of the occupants were set, and evacuation times in various scenarios were compared.The simulation results show that proper planning of evacuation routes and increasing stair width significantly reduced evacuation times. The study recommends that universities establish systematic emergency response plans, conduct regular evacuation drills, optimize student dormitory layouts, and consider increasing stair width in dormitory building designs to improve evacuation efficiency and safety.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.181-194
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• 2022

Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), also known as Danuri, was successfully launched on 4 Aug. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station using a Space-X Falcon-9 rocket. Flight dynamics (FD) operational readiness was one of the critical parts to be checked before the flight. To demonstrate FD software's readiness and enhance the operator's contingency response capabilities, KPLO FD specialists planned, organized, and conducted four simulations and two rehearsals before the KPLO launch. For the efficiency and integrity of FD simulation and rehearsal, different sets of blind test data were prepared, including the simulated tracking measurements that incorporated dynamical model errors, maneuver execution errors, and other errors associated with a tracking system. This paper presents the simulation and rehearsal results with lessons learned for the KPLO FD operational readiness checkout. As a result, every functionality of FD operation systems is firmly secured based on the operation procedure with an enhancement of contingency operational response capability. After conducting several simulations and rehearsals, KPLO FD specialists were much more confident in the flight teams' ability to overcome the challenges in a realistic flight and FD software's reliability in flying the KPLO. Moreover, the results of this work will provide numerous insights to the FD experts willing to prepare deep space flight operations.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2024

In recent years, the frequent occurrence of fire accidents in university libraries has posed significant threats to the safety of students' lives and property, alongside negative social impacts. Accurately analyzing the factors affecting evacuation during library fires and proposing optimized measures for safe evacuation is thus crucial. This paper utilizes a specific university library as a case study, simulating fire evacuation scenarios using the Pathfinder software, to assess and validate evacuation strategies and propose relevant optimizations. Pathfinder, developed by Thunderhead Engineering in the United States, is an intuitive and straightforward personnel emergency evacuation assessment system, offering advanced visualization interfaces and 3D animation effects. This study aims to construct evacuation models and perform simulation analysis for the selected university library using Pathfinder. The library's structural layout, people flow characteristics, and the nature of fire and smoke spread are considered in the analysis. Additionally, evacuation scenarios involving different fire outbreak locations and the status of emergency exits are examined. The findings underscore the importance of effective evacuation in fire situations, highlighting how environmental conditions, individual characteristics, and behavioral patterns significantly influence evacuation efficiency. Through these investigations, the study enhances understanding and optimization of evacuation strategies in fire scenarios, thereby improving safety and efficiency. The research not only provides concrete and practical guidelines for building design, management, and emergency response planning in libraries but also offers valuable insights for the design and management of effective evacuation systems in buildings, crucial for ensuring occupant safety and minimizing loss of life in potential hazard situations

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2014

Smoke is one of the most critical factor when escaping from the fire since it reduces visibility and interrupts finding emergency exit lights. Therefore, it is recommended that an evacuation simulation program should incorporate the smoke factor. In addition, it is suggested that the program should include not only the unilateral damage by the smoke but also the detour evacuation by risk communication. In this study, MAS (Multi Agent System)-based simulation program which incorporates the reduced walking speed by smoke and adopts the dispersion evacuation logic during escaping from the fire. To make comparison, a commercial evacuation program, Pathfinder was used. It was found that the simulation results of MAS (Multi Agent System)-based program is better than Pathfinder in terms of safe evacuation. It means that evacuation simulation need a additional evaluation categories that include not only quick evacuation time but also safe evacuee number.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.184-196
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• 2021

This study, in order to evaluate the safety of evacuation by comparing and analyzing the RSET according to the slope change of the ramp, which is a vertical evacuation route in case of fire in a high school building, Evacuation simulation was run the Pathfinder program changed the slope of the ramp to 10°, 15°, and 20° for each male students and female students. In the case of female students, it was analyzed that when the final RSET slope was 15°, 25.7 seconds were shorter than when 10°, and 4.2 seconds were shorter than when 20°. Male students also found that when the final RSET slope was 15°, 23.8 seconds were shorter than when 10°, and 5.4 seconds shorter than when 20°. It was analyzed that even if the number of participants was increased and the evacuation simulation was executed, the safety of evacuation could be improved when the slope of the slope is 15° as the RSET when the slope of the slope is 15° is shorter than that of 10° and 20°.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2016

본 연구는 보행자의 물리적 특성(크기, 모양, 자세 등)을 적용한 개선된 플로어 필드 모델(Floor field model; FFM)을 소개하고, 개선된 모델과 널리 알려진 다른 피난시뮬레이션 모델과의 비교를 통해 FFM의 한계점 파악 및 개선된 모델의 특징을 분석하고자 한다. FFM은 셀룰라 오토마타(Cellular automata)를 이용한 대표적 미시적 관점 보행 모델이지만 보행자의 크기, 모양, 자세 등의 물리적 특성을 세밀하게 반영하지 않는다. 이로 인해 보행자들 간의 충돌, 마찰 등의 현상을 모델링하기 어려우며 결과적으로 다른 모델들과 비교하였을 경우에 매우 짧은 대피 시간을 산출하고 있다. 본 연구는 물리적 현상을 반영할 수 있는 개선된 FFM을 제시하며, 개선된 모델과 기존 FFM, 시뮬렉스(Simulex), 패스파인더(Pathfinder) 등 다른 모델들과의 비교 실험을 수행하였다. 실험은 실제 캠퍼스 건물의 일부 공간을 대상으로 진행되었으며, 대피 인원의 변화에 따른 대피 양상의 비교와 각 출구별 대피 양상의 비교가 수행되었다. 이를 통해 FFM에서는 반영되지 않던 물리적 현상들이 개선된 모델에서는 상용 모델 수준으로 적용되는 점과 특히 시뮬렉스와 유사한 형태의 대피 양상을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.84-90
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 환경에너지 시설내 전자기기실 내부의 화재 및 피난을 수치적 해석 방법을 통해 실시하고 평가하였다. 화재 시뮬레이션은 FDS을 이용하여 가시거리, 온도분포, CO의 농도분포 등을 분석하였다. 그 결과를 토대로 피난시뮬레이션인 Pathfinder프로그램을 사용하여, 재실자들의 피난시간을 계산하였으며 피난안전성 평가를 도출하였다. 그 결과 전자기기실 내부의 피난 허용시간은 P-01에서 203.3 s로 가장 단시간 내에 대피가 요구되었으며, P-05에서 398.6 s로 피난 허용시간이 가장 큰 값을 나타내었다. 피난 소요시간 분석 결과 모든 지점에서 모든 재실 인원이 대피가 이루어져 대피자의 안전성이 확보되는 것으로 판단되었다. 특히 이 시뮬레이션의 결과는 피난안전성능을 높이기 위하여 소방설비가 작동하지 않는 경우를 고려한 것으로서 실제 화재 발생 시 소방설비가 작동된다면 보다 우수한 안전을 확보할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.317-323
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• 2024

STCW 협약 A-VI에 의거, 승선 필수 증서를 발급받기 위해 소화 과정 최저 훈련 이수를 거치게 되는 공간이 수소화 훈련장이다. 선박 화재의 상황과 유사한 장소에서 발생한 화재 진압 훈련을 위한 실습 장소의 특성상, 재실자의 안전을 보장할 수 있는 운영을 위해 안전성을 수치화하여 평가하고 기준을 수립하는 연구의 필요성이 대두되었다. 화재 안전 평가를 위해 FDS를 기반으로 한 Pyrosim을 활용하여 제연설비 유무에 따른 Case를 설정, vector의 분석을 통한 연기 유동 및 열기에 대한 평가를 수행하였다. 피난 안전평가는 Pathfinder를 통해 허용 피난시간, 총 피난시간을 수치화된 결과로 해석, 비교하여 안전성을 분석하였다. 각 Case에 대한 안전성을 평가함으로 제연설비별 기능의 적정성을 수치, 시각적으로 나타내었으며, 현재 운영 상태는 안전성이 양호한 것으로 평가하였다. 집진설비가 정지한 비상상황은 각 피난시간과 111.2초의 여유시간으로 나타내어 수소화 훈련장의 비상상황에 대한 피난시간의 기준으로 활용할 것을 제시하였다.