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Forensic Engineering Study on the Explosion Accident Investigation of the Centrifugal Casting Machine Using ADINA FSI (ADINA FSI를 활용한 원심주조기 폭발사고 원인 규명에 관한 법공학적 연구)

  • Kim, Eui-Soo;Kim, Jong-Hyuk;Kim, Moo-Gon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2011
  • Forensic Engineering is the area covering the investigation of products, structures that fail to perform or do not function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. To investigate explosion accident of the centrifugal casting machine in terms of the forensic engineering, in this paper, the computing simulation using ADINA FSI has performed to investigate that the effect of the Check-Pin fracture by the flow phenomena and molten metal weight and the mechanical properties test of the accident Check-Pin has performed using the instrumented indentation technique. Through these studies, the safety accident that may occur in centrifugal casting machine can be minimized by performing specialized and systematic investigation of the accident cause in terms of the forensic engineering.

A experimental Study on Insulation Breaking Fire Case of Starter Motor B Terminal (스타트모터 B단자 절연파괴 화재사례에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Woo, Seung Woo;Park, J.M.;Hyun, B.S.;Nam, J.W.;Park, W.S.;Kim, J.P.;Cho, Y.J.;Goh, J.M.;Park, N.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we introduce a case of a fire accident during parking of a large truck that is repeatedly occurring. The shape and location of the combustion and electrical singularity commonly found in other vehicle fire accidents could limit the starter motor as the ignition section. In addition, it was possible to confirm the electrical melting singularity that could act as a cause of ignition between the start motor B terminal and the start motor enclosure. By combining the above investigations and investigations, it was possible to estimate the electric fire expressed from insulation breaking of the starter motor B terminal, and by using the renewable starter motor comparison product mounted on the fire vehicle, an experiment was performed to reproduce the ignition process from the starter motor under specific conditions. So. It is hoped that this will raise awareness about vehicle fires, which can lead to large fires or casualties, share the risks of using starter motors for regeneration, and help in the rapid and accurate investigation of similar vehicle fires in the future.

The Role of Forensic Engineering in the Diagnosis of Electrocution Fatalities: Two Case Reports

  • Mohammad Alqassim;Raneem Ewiss;Hamdah Al Ali
    • Safety and Health at Work
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.124-130
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    • 2023
  • The increase in the number of fatal electric accidents over the years has escalated the demand for specialized forensic engineers to determine their relevant technical causes. Likewise, the complexities associated with identifying the causes of electrocution accidents have prompted the General Department of Forensic Science and Criminology at Dubai Police to adopt a new methodology to diagnose electrocution accidents, consisting of an approach that involves medico-legal examination, electrical diagnosis of the evidence, and trace evidence analysis. This paper will discuss the application of the adopted method in further detail by unfolding two case reports. The first report outlines a case in which a worker got electrocuted at a construction site while attempting to turn on a lamp. The second case report involves the death of a technician in a workshop after trying to disconnect a washing machine from its plug. The methodology was utilized during the investigation of both cases, which were attended by the appointed forensic engineers and showed promising results.

Forensic Engineering Study on Structural Integrity Evaluation of Scaffolding System Tower using ANSYS (ANSYS를 이용한 스캐폴딩 시스템 타워 구조 건전성 평가에 관한 법공학적 연구)

  • Kim, J.H.;Kim, E.S.;Park, W.S.;Moon, B.S.;Goh, J.M.;Park, N.K.;Yoon, K.B.;Cho, S.W.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2013
  • Forensic engineering is the application of engineering principles covering the investigation of constructed facilities and systems that fail to perform as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property, environmental, economy etc. In the year 2012, two collapsed accidents of the large scaffolding system in national thermal power station occurred one after another, causing many casualties. In this study, we had performed to investigate the collapsed accident of scaffolding system occurred in the a thermal power station of two accidents. First, the investigation about the collapsed accidents site had performed to understand collapsed state and structures of the scaffolding system. Second, reviewing the materials concerning about the applied weight on the scaffolding system had performed. The applied weight is sum of the weights of the 15 workers, additional materials for coating work and dispersed and loaded shot ball on the foothold etc. the applied weight that calculated exceed more three times than the safe working load. Third, we had confirmed the install state of the materials of the scaffolding system by reviewing the quantity of the materials on the manual and the real system. Last, structural analysis had performed to evaluate structural integrity of the scaffolding system using Ansys. Through a series of this processes, the definite accidents causes of the collapsed scaffolding system revealed. Through these studies, the collapse accident that may occur in the scaffolding system in thermal power station can be minimized by performing specialized and systematic investigation on the accidents in terms of Forensic engineering.

The Study on Evaluation of Human Body Injury by Explosion of Portable Butane Gas Range (부탄연소기 폭발로 인한 인체 상해 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eui Soo;Shim, J.H.;Kim, J.P.;Park, N.K.
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.60-67
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    • 2016
  • The gas leak and explosion accident is able to give a fatal injury to nearby people from the explosion center and interest in effect of the explosion on the human body is increased. Accidents by Portable Butane Gas Range of a gas explosion accident occupy the most share. As a result, the injury on the human body frequently occur. However, It is situation that are experiencing difficulties in consequence analysis of explosion accidents owing to shortage of explosion power data and lack of research on the effect of the human body by the gas explosion. This paper acquire human injury data by performing the actual explosion experiment with Portable Butane Gas Range and evaluate power by explosion and effect of explosion on the human body to perform explosion simulation with LS-DYNA program. It is intended to contribute to the exact cause of the accident investigation and the same type of accident prevention.

Forensic Engineering Study on the Evaluation of the Structural Stability of the Mobile Crane Accident (차량크레인 전도 사고의 구조 안정성 평가에 관한 법공학적 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyuk;Kim, Eui-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2013
  • Forensic Engineering is the area covering the investigation of products, structures that fail to perform or do not function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. To investigate the mobile crane's overturn accident in terms of the forensic engineering, in this study, we identified the accident mobile crane's position and posture before accident by the analysis of the trace resulted by the contact between the outrigger and the ground, and the accident remodeling has been performed using CATIA modeling program in the basis of the accident mobile crane's position and posture information. The accident analysis has been performed by comparing this accident remodeling and the crane's specification, the table of the allowance load about the boom's length and the working radius. Through these studies, the safety accident that may occur in mobile crane can be minimized by performing specialized and systematic investigation of the accident cause in terms of the forensic engineering.

Implementation of an Android Smart phone Forensic Tool Based on Logical Analysis (논리적 분석 기반의 안드로이드 스마트폰 포렌식 도구 구현)

  • Kim, Ik-Su;An, Young-Geon;Yi, Jeong-Hyun;Yang, Seung-Jei;Kim, Myung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.137-148
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    • 2011
  • In the past, the domestic research on mobile forensics has been limited to cell phones. Increasing use of smart phones, studies on smart phone forensic will be conducted actively in the future. In particular, the study on Android forensic is very important because Android smart phone market share is increasing rapidly. In this paper, we describe an implementation of an Android smart phone forensic tool based on logical analysis. Compared with Oxygen Forensic Suite 2010, this tool saves time it takes to perform Android smart phone forensic because this tool provides search feature and resource links for extracted media information. So far, no smart phone forensic tool is introduced in Korea. Accordingly, this tool would contribute to the advancement of the technology on smart phone forensic.

A Study of Forensic Techniques and Tools on Smart Phone OS Types (Smart Phone OS별 포렌식 기술과 도구에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Bo-Man;Park, Dea-Woo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2010.10a
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    • pp.223-226
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    • 2010
  • iPhone and Smart Phone domestic markets are activated with domestic coming out of galaxy S together and the users are increasing. It follows hereupon and with forensic techniques for the cellular phone relation criminal evidence collection of data of existing the mobile forensic engineering research is necessary in about Smart Phone where it has become new techniques and WiFi etc. Convergence. It respects Smart Phone OS star forensic technique and a tool research, iPhone Apple MAC OS X and it researches galaxy S Google Android from the present paper. Smart it uses SYN methods with Phone OS star forensic techniques and it researches in order mobile forensic description below it observes it sees and forensic application methods computer forensic methods and the tools and it researches forensic techniques. The present paper research as IT powerful country will contribute in Smart Phone forensic technical advances of Korea.

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Design and Implementation of a Digital Evidence Management Model Based on Hyperledger Fabric

  • Jeong, Junho;Kim, Donghyo;Lee, Byungdo;Son, Yunsik
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.760-773
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    • 2020
  • When a crime occurs, the information necessary for solving the case, and various pieces of the evidence needed to prove the crime are collected from the crime scene. The tangible residues collected through scientific methods at the crime scene become evidence at trial and a clue to prove the facts directly against the offense of the suspect. Therefore, the scientific investigation and forensic handling for securing objective forensic in crime investigation is increasingly important. Today, digital systems, such as smartphones, CCTVs, black boxes, etc. are increasingly used as criminal information investigation clues, and digital forensic is becoming a decisive factor in investigation and trial. However, the systems have the risk that digital forensic may be damaged or manipulated by malicious insiders in the existing centralized management systems based on client/server structure. In this paper, we design and implement a blockchain based digital forensic management model using Hyperledger Fabric and Docker to guarantee the reliability and integrity of digital forensic. The proposed digital evidence management model allows only authorized participants in a distributed environment without a central management agency access the network to share and manage potential crime data. Therefore, it could be relatively safe from malicious internal attackers compared to the existing client/server model.

A Forensic Engineering Study on Evaluation of Explosive Pressure and Velocity for LNG Explosion Accident using AUTODYN (AUTODYN을 이용한 LNG 폭발 사고 위력 평가에 관한 법공학적 연구)

  • Kim, Eui Soo;Kim, Jong Hyuk;Shim, Jong Heon;Kim, Jin Pyo;Goh, Jae Mo;Park, Nam Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2015
  • Gas explosion accidents could cause a catastrophe. we need specialized and systematic accident investigation techniques to shed light on the cause and prevent similar accidents. In this study, we had performed LNG explosion simulation using AUTODYN which is the commercial explosion program and predicted the damage characteristics of the structures by LNG explosive power. In the first step, we could get LNG's physical and chemical explosion properties by calculation using TNT equivalency method. And then, by applying TNT equivalency value about the explosion limit concentration of LNG on the 2D-AUTODYN simulation, we could get the explosion pressure wave profiles (explosion pressure, explosion velocity, etc.). In the last step, we performed LNG explosion simulation by applying to the explosion pressure wave profiles as the input data on the 3D-AUTODYN simulation. As a result, we had performed analyzing of the explosion characteristics of LNG in accordance with concentration through the 3D-AUTODYN simulation in terms of the explosion pressure behavior and structure's destruction and damage behavior.