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BIM and Fire Safety Engineering - Overview of State of The Art

  • Davidson, Anne;Gales, John
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.251-263
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    • 2021
  • Fire safety engineering is a critical specialization to include in the design of a tall building yet is often excluded from the Building Information Model (BIM) and integrated design process. The design of fire safety systems is interdependent with building/structural geometry, HVAC, mechanical, and electrical systems. A BIM is a 3D visual representation that stores data on these kinds of systems. The compatibility between BIM and fire safety design seems obvious yet has received a dearth of attention in structural (fire) engineering literature. The authors herein have reviewed over 40 recent papers on utilizing BIM for fire safety engineering, focusing on contemporary literature to obtain a more up-to-date review of the state-of-the-art. The resulting trends, technologies, research gaps, and methodologies are presented in this paper. Adoption of BIM in fire safety engineering is slow and behind other disciplines which may be improved if research involved more industry partners. For BIM technology to reach its potential, industry manufacturers need to provide high LOD fire BIM objects, fire engineers and researchers need to collaborate on future advancements, and building owners/management need to be educated on how to use the benefits provided.

A Study on the general direction of Fire-Fighting Safety management in high-rise buildings (초고층 건축물 소방안전관리의 기본방향에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Man-Chul;Kim, Byung-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.67-75
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    • 2011
  • Contrast a general building high rise buildings itself has a kind of risk. In this study, the risk of a number of high rise buildings have fire fighting safety management of the particular risks associated with looking for ways to minimize focused. Issues include self fire protection. disaster management, building code and fire code of the mismatch, such as fire protection facilities aspects are explained in terms of three kinds, and for it to take steps in the direction suggested an alternative for high rise buildings. Although differences of opinion between departments will not be easy to fire fighting and building codes regarding conflicts of codes above all require immediate resolution, and high rise buildings to create a standard for effective risk management manual countermeasures will also be ensured.

A Study on Evaluation Plan of Fire Safety Performance for Public Building (공동주택의 화재안전성능 평가방안에 관한 연구)

  • Ku, Jae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.25-32
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    • 2019
  • From the viewpoint of fire-fighting activities, public building have structural and management problems in fire, so evacuation disturbance and risk of expanding combustion are high. As a result of analyzing various fire fragile factors of public building, The evaluation areas were derived from safety systems, fire-fighting facility, structure safety, general safety and the evaluation factors were presented. Also, the characteristics of domestic and foreign certification systems were analyzed by comparing and analyzing the status of fire safety performance certification system for 6 domestic and overseas apartment houses. In conclusion, the 5 convergence directions of certification system and 22 evaluation items by 4 evaluation fields were derived, and based on this, we have established 3 convergence introduction plans of fire safety performance certification system of public building.

LATEST INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN PASSIVE FIRE PROTECTION

  • Marx, Olliver
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.227-243
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    • 1997
  • Fire and smoke can from a small ignition source develop rapidly. Active systems in combination with Passive Fire Protection measures will offer highest safety standards to the building's developers and occupants. Nevertheless, the fire growth is very unpredictable and it is therefore essential at the planning stage that tested solutions are well selected according to National codes and later on installed by qualified contractors to ensure optimum performance. This demonstrates that Passive Fire Protection as safety measure cannot be neglected. Recent fire cases all over the world still proof that fire can develop any time and any where even in countries of high safety standards.

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International Code of Safety Regulation for High Speed Craft - as compared with Fire Safety Regulation- (고속선의 새로운 국제안전규칙 -화재안전규칙에 대하여-)

  • 박영규;신영식
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.111-123
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    • 1997
  • The application of all regulations during building phase, plus constant vigilance in operation is essential to reducing the risk of fire aboard. A Safety by design approach is increasingly important. Fire safety regulation can solve problems which are hard to be solved by HSC code(International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft). Recently HSC code is applied for ship design development or guidance to the designer and demonstrates many advantages. In this pages, ship fire Safety are realistically modeled as ship design and the shipboard fires & muster stations are analyzed using HSC Code.

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A Study on The Comparative Survey of Expression Methods for Fire Safety Performance in Korea and Japan (화재안전성능분야에 대한 표현방법에 관한 한.일 의식조사 비교 연구)

  • Koo, In-Hyuk;Oh, Sung-Hae;Seo, Kwang-Hyun;Lee, Jae Young;Sato, Hiroomi;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.27-34
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    • 2008
  • As for the performance related to a fire safety like fire resistance efficiency and evacuation safety etc. It is the ain of this study to investigate the comparative survey of expression methods for fire safety performance in Korea and Japan. The results of this study that there are so difference between Japan and Korea and suggests that the necessity for converting the fire risk calculated by an advanced technique into a simple expression.

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A Study on Technical Trend of Fire Safety on Railway Vehicles for Launch CEN/TS 45545 (CEN/TS 45545 출범에 따른 철도차량 화재안전 기술 동향에 대한 연구)

  • Sung, Si-Young;Woo, Yee-Wan;Park, Jea-Hong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.1768-1773
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    • 2010
  • CEN/TS 45545 is Europe consolidation standard for fire safety on railway behicles. This is based on the International Union of Railways(UIC) and different European countries. It is intended to protect passengers and staff in railway in the event of a fire on board. It will be prepared in 2012. Based on this consolidate standard, they are going to make single market, for raising technical competitiveness, technical innovation and globalization of that standard. For this reason, European academies, manufacturers, and sub-manufacturers confer and stady animated about CEN/TS 45545. In Korea, get out the safety assessment for ues incombustible interior material, the needs of quantitative analysis on fire protection, demand on recognition of fire protection scenario, and define about fire load analysis are becomin more and more important. Therefore, this paper will estimate and compare Flammability, Smoke Density, Toxicity Index( this is the key point for appraised fire safety performance of material) between CEN/TS45545 and fire standards on railway vehicle. Then suggest criteria for fire safety on railway vehicles.

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Combustion Characteristics Analysis of a Non-class 1E Cable for Nuclear Power Plants according to Aging Period (경년열화 기간에 따른 원자력발전소용 비안전등급 케이블의 연소특성 분석)

  • Kim, Min Ho;Lee, Seok Hui;Lee, Min Chul;Lee, Sang Kyu;Lee, Ju Eun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 2020
  • In this study, combustion and smoke release characteristics of a non-class 1E cable for nuclear power plants were investigated according to aging period. The aging was reproduced through an accelerated aging method for interval of 10 years :10, 20, 30 and 40 year, which was applied the Arrhenius equation. The cable was subjected to accelerated aging. In order to understand combustion and smoke release characteristics, the cone calorimeter test was performed according to the standard code of KS F ISO 5660-1. Heat release rate, mass loss rate, average rate of heat emission and smoke production rate were examined through cone calorimeter test. Fire performance index, fire growth index and smoke factor were derived from test results for the comparison of quantitative fire risk. When comparing the fire performance index and the fire growth index, the early fire risk tends to decrease as aging progresses, which might be attributed from the fact that the volatile substances of cables were evaporated. However, when comparing the heat release rate, average rate of heat emission and mass loss rate, which represent the mid and late periods of the fire risk, the values of accelerated aging cables were much higher than those of non-aged cable, which signifies the unstable formation of the char layer resulted in the change in the performance of flame retardants. In addition, the results from the smoke characteristics show that the accelerated aging cables were lager than the non-aged cables in terms of overall fire risk. These results can be used as baseline data when assessing fire risk of cables and establishing fire safety code for nuclear power plants.

Measures to Increase Evacuation Safety through Performance-Based Design of Escape Room Cafes (방탈출카페의 성능위주설계에 의한 피난안전성 확대 방안)

  • Hong-Sang Lee;Jai Young Lee;Ha-Sung Kong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.95-104
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to propose measures to increase evacuation safety by calculating the habitable time using a fire and evacuation simulation program for the Room-escape cafe currently in operation, and comparing and analyzing it with the evacuation required time. Assuming a fire due to overheating of electric heaters in use in front of the warehouse, the habitable time was calculated through fire simulation, and the occupant's evacuation time calculated through evacuation simulation according installation of safety facilities, etc. was compared and analyzed with the habitable time. In the case of escape room cafes with safety facilities installed, evacuation safety was satisfied, but in escape room cafes without safety facilities, the evacuation safety was not secure. As a result of analyzing evacuation safety for each scenario based on the ASET analyzed in the fire simulation, it was found that in scenario 1, evacuation safety was secured and everyone successfully evacuated, while in scenario 2, no one succeeded in evacuation. These results can be said to confirm that the installation of safety facilities is very important in business establishments such as escape room cafes, which become enclosed structures when games are started.