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A Study on the Prediction of Fire Load in case of a Train Fire (철도 차량 화재시 화재강도 예측을 위한 연구)

  • Yang, Sung-Jin;Chang, Jung-Hoon;Gang, Chan-Yong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.2101-2108
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    • 2008
  • Most of train fires which occur in usual cases do not grow up significantly on a large scale enough to bring about casualties and harmful damages. However, the consequence of some train fire accidents can be devastating disaster so that it would be even recorded in history in unusual cases. Accordingly, such a probability of fire disaster cannot be ignored in aspect of the railway safety assesment. A scale of injury and damage is very difficult to predict and analyze. Because it is depend on various factors, i.e. fire load, burning period, facilities, environment condition, and so on. Thus, a prediction of fire load could be understood as a one methodology to estimate railway safety assesment. The summation method which is one of them is used to evaluate the overall fire load by assuming that sum of heat release rate per unit area or mass of each composite material equals the total. However, since the train fire is classified into a compartment fire in under-ventilation condition. The summation method do not estimate a fire load completely. In this journal, Various methods to predict fire load are introduced and evaluated. Especially the fire simulation tool FDS(Fire Dynamics Simulator)which is based on the CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics) is introduced, too. Through the FDS simulation, numerical analyses for the fire load and flame spread are performed. Then, these results of the simulation are validated through the comparison study with the experimental data. Then, limitations and approximations including in simulation process are discussed. The future direction of research is proposed.

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A Study on Injury Characteristics by Working Place in the Saw Milling Industry (일반제재업종에서의 작업공정별 재해특성 연구)

  • Rhee, Hong Suk;Yi, Kwan Hyung;Kim, Young Sun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2014
  • The average injury rate in sawmilling industry for the last 5 years is 4.99%, which means that more than 200 injuries have occurred in that industry every year. Because the first step in risk assessment is the hazard identification, it is very important to know how to define the hazard and nature of harm. We analyzed 643 accident records of three years(2010-2012) and carried out site survey for the same cases. As a result, the most common types of work at the time of injury in sawmilling industry were removing jammed wood 81(12.8%), wood carrying task 52(8.1%), wood cutting 49(7.6%), travelling table log band saw 41(6.4%), maintenance 37(5.8%) etc. In addition, there were statistically significant differences in some analysis factors such as injured body parts, employment size, and handling material among different working places. Therefore, it is concluded that differentiated prevention efforts are necessary in each workplace.

Comparison of the safety and immunogenicity of commercial S. gallinarum 9R vaccine (국내 시판 Salmonella gallinarum 9R vaccine의 안전성 및 면역원성 비교)

  • Hwang, Jei Kiun;Lee, Young Ju
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.127-133
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    • 2009
  • Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar gallinarum (S. gallinarum) is the agent of fowl typhoid, and the 9R vaccine is a commercial live vaccine for the prevention of fowl typhoid. The aim of this study was to assess the safety and immunogenicity of different brands of S. gallinarum 9R vaccine used in commercial laying chickens in Korea. All 9R strains originated from three different brands showed the same pattern in the biochemical and serological properties, and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profile. But, there was a difference in rhamnose fermentaion, agglutination with Salmonella group $D_1$ antiserum and PFGE pattern between 9R vaccine strain and field S. gallinarum isolates. In laboratory and field trials for assesment of safety and immunogenicity of 9R vaccine, all of the three 9R vaccines showed the same safety in commercial laying chickens. In addition, there was a significant difference between the vaccinated and unvaccinated control groups in mortality and the re-isolation rate of the challenge strain from the tissues (p < 0.05), and no difference by the brands of 9R vaccine. The results from this study indicated that all three different brands of S. gallinarum 9R vaccine showed highly protection against mortality and organ invasion in commercial laying chickens exposed to virulent strains of S. gallinarum.

Reliability of Load-Carrying Capacity of RC Deep Beams (철근콘크리트 깊은 보의 내하력에 대한신뢰도 평가)

  • Cheon Ju-Hyun;Kim Tae-Hoon;Lee Sang-Cheol;Shin Hyun-Mock
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.17 no.6 s.90
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    • pp.955-962
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    • 2005
  • Still no accurate theory exists for predicting ultimate shear strength of deep reinforced concrete beams because of the structural and material non-linearity after cracking. Currently, the load capacity assesment is performed for the upper structure of the bridges and containing non-reliability in the applications and results. The purpose in this study is to evaluate analytically the complex shear behaviors and normal strength for the reinforced concrete deep beams and to offer the accuracy load capacity assesment method based on the reliability theories. This paper presents a method for the load capacity assesment of reinforcement concrete deep beams using nonlinear finite element analysis. A computer program named RCAHEST (Reinforced Concrete Analysis in Higher Evaluation System Technology), for the analysis of reinforced concrete structures was used. Material non-linearity is taken Into account by comprising tensile, compressive and shear models of cracked concrete and a model of reinforcing steel. From the results, determine the reliability index for the failure base on the Euro Code. Then, calculate additional reduction coefficient to satisfy the goals from the reliability analysis. The proposed numerical method for the load capacity assesment of reinforced concrete deep beams is verified by comparison with the others methods.

Stress Assesment based on Bio-Signals using Random Forest Algorithm (랜덤포레스트 기법을 이용한 생체 신호 기반의 스트레스 평가 방법)

  • Lim, Taegyoon;Heo, Jeongheon;Jeong, Kyuwon;Ghim, Heirhee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 2020
  • Most people suffer from stress during day life because modernized society is very complex and changes fast. Because stress can affect to many kind of physiological phenomena it is even considered as a disease. Therefore, it should be detected earlier, then must be released. When a person is being stressed several bio-signals such as heart rate, etc. are changed. So, those can be detected using medical electronics techniques. In this paper, stress assessment system is studied using random forest algorithm based on heart rate, RR interval and Galvanic skin response. The random forest model was trained and tested using the data set obtained from the bio-signals. It is found that the stress assessment procedure developed in this paper is very useful.

A Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorder Risk Assessment Platform using Smart Sensor (스마트센서를 활용한 근골격계 질환 위험 평가 플랫폼)

  • Loh, Byoung Gook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.93-99
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    • 2015
  • Economic burden of work-related musculoskeletal disorder(WMDs) is increasing. Known causes of WMDs include improper posture, repetition, load, and temperature of workplace. Among them, improper postures play an important role. A smart sensor called SensorTag is employed to estimate the trunk postures including flexion-extension, lateral bend, and the trunk rotational speeds. Measuring gravitational acceleration vector in the smart sensor along the tri-orthogonal axes offers an orientation of the object with the smart sensor attached to. The smart sensor is light in weight and has small form factor, making it an ideal wearable sensor for body posture measurement. Measured data from the smart senor is wirelessly transferred for analysis to a smartphone which has enough computing power, data storage and internet-connectivity, removing need for additional hardware for data post-processing. Based on the estimated body postures, WMDs risks can be conviently gauged by using existing WMDs risk assesment methods such as OWAS, RULA, REBA, etc.

A Study on the Database basic structure of Accident Data Management for the Purpose of Railway Safety Management (철도안전관리를 위한 사고자료관리 D/B구조에 관한 기초연구)

  • Hong Seon Ho;Wang Jong Bae;Kwak Sang Log;Lee Yoo Jun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.241-246
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, necessity and application scope of the risk-analysis D/B which assesses the railway safety condition has been introduced. In addition, normalization of analysis work, which is one of the DB development procedures has been conducted. And the structure of accident data management has been introduced through the analysis on the classification scheme used in Korea. Also the improvement of railway accident classification and management scheme which is necessary to accident risk assesment has been presented by these procedures.

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The Quantitative Risk Assessment for Railroad-tunnel Fire Incidents by using CFD code (CFD code를 이용한 철도터널 화재 위험도 평가)

  • Kim, H.B.;Lee, D.H.;Jang, Y.J.;Jung, W.S.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.169-172
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    • 2011
  • Recently, railroad long tunnels are increasing and growing longer due to topological feathers like a lot of mountain in Korea. But fire disaster of a long tunnel cause many people to injury and death. For that reason, at the early design stage of a long tunnel, risk assessment and mitigation measure of risk for satisfying tunnel safety are required. According to the railroad facility safety standard (Korean MLTM Announcement No. 2006-395), risk assessment for railroad-tunnel fire should be performed when design stage. Therefore, various methods of risk assessment for tunnel fire have been studied and applied. In the paper, QRA(Quantitative Risk Analysis) for fire risk assessment by using CFD code is presented and the usefulness of CFD is discussed.

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A Study on the Highway Ramp Section for Simulation of Commercial Vehicle ESC Assesment (상용 ESC 평가 시뮬레이션을 위한 국내 고속도로 진출입로 연구)

  • Lee, Hongguk;Park, Joongyoung;Chang, Kyungjin;Suh, Leejung;Yoo, Songmin
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2014
  • Commercial vehicle ESC assessment for curvature road was conducted. The previous study of ESC activation condition for losing controllability utilizing the test protocols of double lane change and sine with dwell method was conducted without considering the geometric complexity of roadway design. Since critical rollover accidents were frequently observed in the exit ramp zone, variety of curve, slope and bank have been added for analysis conditions. Detailed feature of the ramp including location, dimension and design characteristics have been analyzed from the typical trumpet type ramp design. Analyzing accident data from 2008, two specific ramps have been selected due to their complexity in design and severity in steering operation.

Performance Assesment based Dashboards for Maintenance Management System (설비관리 업무를 위한 성과평가 기반의 대시보드 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Kwang Man
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.417-426
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    • 2014
  • Plant management have a greatest influence on the corporate variety of tasks such as production, quality, environment. So, various performance indices for plant management are operating. But plant management tasks can be carried out effectively, so that all of how to organize and efficiently manage indicators is lacking real condition In this paper, improved profitability, cost savings by applying the concept for the performance assessment, plant management services, such as the key indices for performance according to the objectives of the firm. Dashboard for plant management work using me to develop a system that manage.