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The Analysis on Forest Fire Occurrence Characteristics by Regional Area in Korea from 1990 to 2014 Year

  • Jeon, Bo Ram;Chae, Hee Mun
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.149-157
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    • 2016
  • Understanding regional characteristics in forest fire occurrence is important to establish effective forest fire prevention policy in Korea. This study analyzed the characteristics of forest fires occurred in 16 administrative districts for recent 25 years (1990~2014) to examine regional characteristics in forest fire occurrence. Forest fire occurrence reflects regional characteristics depending on climatic factors as well as region's society-cultural factors. Results showed that the first cause of forest fire occurrence was carelessness by human activities throughout all administrative districts, however, the second cause depends on regional characteristics. As the results of forest fire occurrence period analyzed for 10 days, the most forest fires occurred in the southern region during January to March, while forest fires in the northern region occurred mostly during March to April. We classified forest fire occurrence patterns into three types (centralized: Gyeonggi-do, dispersal: Busan, horizontally distributed: Gyeongsangnam-do) by multi-temporal analysis for forest fire occurrence period.

Fire Cause Reasoning of Self-regulating Heating Cable by a Fire Investigation Applying the Scientific Method and Fault Tree Analysis (과학적 방법을 적용한 화재조사와 결함수 분석을 이용한 정온전선의 발화원인 추론)

  • Kim, Doo-Hyun;Lee, Heung-Su
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.73-81
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    • 2016
  • A self-regulating heating cable is an electrical heating element by flowing an electric current between parallel conductors filled with an extruded semi-conductive polymer. Self-regulating heating cables are used mainly for frost protection purposes because the construction is convenient and the price is low. On the other hand, structural problems with imperfections of the insulation can cause a fire despite their usefulness. This paper deduced a direct method to derive the cause by investigating the scene of a fire due to a self-regulating heating cable and analyzed the basic problem using fault tree analysis. In this paper, the actual fire scene was a cold storage warehouse, and fire investigation was conducted. After investigating the fire scene and fault tree analysis, the cause of the fire could be attributed to dielectric breakdown of the self-regulating heating cable. This paper could be utilized in the fire safety activities and similar fire investigations.

Electrical Fire Cause Diagnosis System based on Fuzzy Inference

  • Lee, Jong-Ho;Kim, Doo-Hyun
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2005
  • This paper aims at the development of an knowledge base for an electrical fire cause diagnosis system using the entity relation database. The relation database which provides a very simple but powerful way of representing data is widely used. The system focused on database construction and cause diagnosis can diagnose the causes of electrical fires easily and efficiently. In order to store and access to the information concerned with electrical fires, the key index items which identify electrical fires uniquely are derived out. The knowledge base consists of a case base which contains information from the past fires and a rule base with rules from expertise. To implement the knowledge base, Access 2000, one of DB development tools under windows environment and Visual Basic 6.0 are used as a DB building tool. For the reasoning technique, a mixed reasoning approach of a case based inference and a rule based inference has been adopted. Knowledge-based reasoning could present the cause of a newly occurred fire to be diagnosed by searching the knowledge base for reasonable matching. The knowledge-based database has not only searching functions with multiple attributes by using the collected various information(such as fire evidence, structure, and weather of a fire scene), but also more improved diagnosis functions which can be easily wed for the electrical fire cause diagnosis system.

Mechanism analysis through Water fire case (정수기 화재발생 사례를 통한 재현실험)

  • Lee, Jeong-Il
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.593-618
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    • 2011
  • Development of the economy and the growing income of people interested in the leisure and health has been focused. Past the town common wells and groundwater around the water, but health is a priority these days to solve the drinking water directly from tap water, but most people work from home, through the water purifier has been resolved. Depending on seasonal changes and personal taste of coffee, if you can enjoy a snack and water purifier is a restaurant, lounge, public areas and focusing on the rapid spread of the fire, water purifier as compared to the total number of fires increased by 0.03% per year trend on, but the washrooms fire and fire-related research data and case studies with analysis of the exact cause lack of proper preventive measures are insufficient reality. In this study, focusing on electrical energy using a water cooler to understand the structure and principles of fire, the fire revealed the mechanism is vulnerable to the consideration of factors, the exact cause of the fire investigation and the Assistant, manufacturing defects, and to contribute to fire prevention review should.

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The Fire Cause Analysis and Judgement of Metering Out Fit(MOF) Installed Outdoors (옥외에 설치한 계기용변성기의 화재원인 분석과 판정)

  • Shong, Kil-Mok;Kim, Young-Seog;Kim, Sun-Gu
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.75-90
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we analyzed on the fire cause of the metering out fit(MOF) installed the outdoors in domestic. There are observed by the rule is approved officially such as KS C IEC. and developed into the judgement can be in site. As the results, there founded out the fire cause on the gasket parts of MOF as the process of work which finish is bad. It's estimated the fire process that water percolates through on the MOF according to the un-airtight gasket.

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Study on the Risk Analysis of Complex Electrical Fire by the Partial Disconnection and Tracking (반단선과 트래킹에 의한 복합적 전기화재의 위험성분석 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Min;Kim, Si-Kuk
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2017
  • The present paper is a study on the risk analysis of complex electrical fire by the partial disconnection and tracking. First, in order to analysis the single cause of electrical fire risk by the partial disconnection, the thermal characteristic has been measured by the change in the number of strands and the rated current of a wire. And then, in order to analysis the electrical fire risk by complex cause, an experiment on the accelerated tracking has been carried out in a condition of partial disconnection and confirmed the fire relation between partial disconnection and tracking. From the experiment, if the partial wire disconnection acts as a single cause, the existing thermal characteristics generated by the flowing current has appeared more clearly by the increase in the flowing current due to the complex action of tracking. Accordingly, the disconnection of strands has appeared by the complex cause due to the drastic temperature increase which was not generated in the single cause. Namely, it has been confirmed that if the partial disconnection and tracking act complexly rather than the risk of electrical fire by the existing partial disconnection, relatively its risk has been increased in large.

A Study on the Unique point about the Tracking at Electrical fire spot (화재현장에서 분석 절차에 따른 전기화재 조사기법 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Ook;Lee, Ki-Yeon;Gil, Hyung-Jun;Kim, Hyang-Kon;Chung, Young-Sik
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.2130-2131
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    • 2011
  • Electric fire breaks out by various causes such as electric short, overload(over current), leakage current, poor contact, static electricity, insulation deterioration, partial disconnection and etc. In this paper, we studied analysis technique for scientific and systematic judgment for distinction of electricity fire existence and nonexistence, and described about electricity fire cause analysis process for collecting physical evidences. We handled external form analysis, Substance extension analysis, X-ray transmission analysis, cross-section analysis, thermal analysis, chemical structure analysis, surface structure analysis, component analysis, electrical properties analysis, and circuit analysis by analysis technique for electricity fire cause judgment. We expect that analysis technic elevation and correct cause of fire analysis of scene of a fire investigators and analysts through this paper which see help.

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Construction of Case-based System for the Cause Diagnosis of an Electrical Fires (전기화재 원인진단을 위한 사례기반 시스템 구축)

  • Lee, Jong-Ho;Kim, Doo-Hyun;Kim, Sung-Chul
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.21 no.2 s.66
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents the development of a case-based system for an electrical fire cause diagnosis system using the entity relation database. The relation database which provides a very simple but powerful way of representing data is widely used. The system focused on database construction and cause diagnosis can diagnose the causes of electrical fires easily and efficiently. In order to store and access to the information concerned with electrical fires, the key index items which identify electrical fires uniquely are derived out. The case-based system consists of a case which contains information from the past fires. The case-based system could present the cause of a newly occurred fire to be diagnosed by searching the case-based database for reasonable matching. The case-based system has not only searching functions with multiple attributes by using the collected various information(such as fire evidence, structure, and weather of a fire scene) but also more improved diagnosis functions which can be easily used for the electrical fire cause diagnosis system.

Analysis of the Truck Fire Caused by Return Spring Defect of a Braking System during Expressway Driving (고속도로 주행 중 제동장치 리턴스프링 결함으로 발생한 트럭화재의 분석)

  • Kim, Younhoi;Lee, Euipyeong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.148-155
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    • 2014
  • Most truck fires breaking out on the expressway are directly damaged by fire destruction of truck and freight and many of them cause indirect damage such as serious traffic holdups. This study analyzed the fire causes and their liability of the 25-ton truck fire breaking out during expressway driving. This truck fire was caused by manufacturing defect of return spring of a braking system. The fire liability rested with a maker(manufacturer) rather than a truck owner or a driver and the maker also bore fire liability based on the Product Liability Law.

A Study on the Improvement Plans of Police Fire Investigation (경찰화재조사의 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • SeoMoon, Su-Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Investigation
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.103-121
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    • 2006
  • We are living in more comfortable circumstances with the social developments and the improvement of the standard of living, but, on the other hand, we are exposed to an increase of the occurrences of tires on account of large-sized, higher stories, deeper underground building and the use of various energy resources. The materials of the floor in a residence modern society have been going through various alterations in accordance with the uses of a residence and are now used as final goods in interioring the bottom of apartments, houses and shops. There are so many kinds of materials you usually come in contact with, but in the first place, we need to make an experiment on the spread of the fire with the hypocaust used as the floors of apartments, etc. and the floor covers you usually can get easily. We, scientific investigators, can get in contact with the accidents caused by incendiarism or an accidental fire closely connected with petroleum stuffs on the floor materials that give rise to lots of problems. on this account, I'd like to propose that we conduct an experiment on fire shapes by each petroleum stuff and that discriminate an accidental tire from incendiarism. In an investigation, it seems that finding a live coal could be an essential part of clearing up the cause of a tire but it could not be the cause of a fire itself. And besides, all sorts of tire cases or fire accidents have some kind of legislation and standard to minimize and at an early stage cope with the damage by tires. That is to say, we are supposed to install each kind of electric apparatus, automatic alarm equipment, automatic fire extinguisher in order to protect ourselves from the danger of fires and check them at any time and also escape urgently in case of fire-outbreaking or build a tire-proof construction to prevent flames from proliferating to the neighboring areas. Namely, you should take several factors into consideration to investigate a cause of a case or an accident related to fire. That means it's not in reason for one investigator or one investigative team to make clear of the starting part and the cause of a tire. accordingly, in this thesis, explanations would be given set limits to the judgement and verification on the cause of a fire and the concrete tire-spreading part through investigation on the very spot that a fire broke out. The fire-discernment would also be focused on the early stage fire-spreading part fire-outbreaking resources, and I think the realities of police tire investigations and the problems are still a matter of debate. The cause of a fire must be examined into by logical judgement on the basis of abundant scientific knowledge and experience covering the whole of fire phenomena. The judgement of the cause should be made with fire-spreading situation at the spot as the central figure and in case of verifying, you are supposed to prove by the situational proof from the traces of the tire-spreading to the fire-outbreaking sources. The causal relation on a fire-outbreak should not be proved by arbitrary opinion far from concrete facts, and also there is much chance of making mistakes if you draw deduction from a coincidence. It is absolutely necessary you observe in an objective attitude and grasp the situation of a tire in the investigation of the cause. Having a look at the spot with a prejudice is not allowed. The source of tire-outbreak itself is likely to be considered as the cause of a tire and that makes us doubt about the results according to interests of the independent investigators. So to speak, they set about investigations, the police investigation in the hope of it not being incendiarism, the fire department in the hope of it not being problems in installments or equipments, insurance companies in the hope of it being any incendiarism, electric fields in the hope of it not being electric defects, the gas-related in the hope of it not being gas problems. You could not look forward to more fair investigation and break off their misgivings. It is because the firing source itself is known as the cause of a fire and civil or criminal responsibilities are respected to the firing source itself. On this occasion, investigating the cause of a fire should be conducted with research, investigation, emotion independent, and finally you should clear up the cause with the results put together.

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