• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 2010

The escape connecting gallery in a tunnel on a road is one of emergency equipment to ensure safety for passer in the tunnel against the tunnel fire. Government stipulate over 500m tunnel has the cross passage at intervals of less then 250 m. However, this lump estimated interval is generated the concerns of exaggeration and under construction because peculiarity of the tunnel ex. The velocity of the tunnel airflow, an incline, degree of a fire, and innering area are not considered. The study indicate the way to estimate of the cross passage considered an incline and the velocity of the tunnel airflow for efficient application of cross passage on the tunnel design. As a result, in 0.0 m/s and 1.0 m/s of the velocity of the tunnel airflow case, the movement of smoke is influenced by the incline however, in 20 m/s case, it isn't influenced by incline much. According to the velocity of tunnel airflow and the incline, optimum interval of cross passage is not corresponded. Therefore established lump estimate that has 250 m intervals would be changed to estimate of optimum interval of cross passage that considered about the properties of tunnel, the velocity of the tunnel airflow, incline, degree of a fire and innering area of the tunnel.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.15 no.1 s.54
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• pp.61-70
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• 2005

The objective of this study was to analyze the smoke movement for the case of fire and to determine the interval between emergency exits in long tunnels. Based on Froude modeling, the 1/50 scaled model tunnel (20 m long) was constructed by acrylic tubes and tests were carried out systematically. From the strong relationship between CO propagation time and distance through the tunnel, it was found that the optimal escaping time was 6 minutes in case of 20MW fire. But, regarding passengers' psychological state under fire, another one minute of delay time should be considered. Therefore, the total escaping time should be estimated by 5 minutes. The interval between the emergency exits for vehicle passengers was calculated by 250 m with respect to the 5 minute of escaping time.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.5 no.3 s.18
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• pp.41-46
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• 2005

Establishing special fire flower sensor of automatic fire equipment in tunnel, it is informed perception, croaker suppression realization and danger occurrence item vehicles driver of tunnel entry verge and connection stream tube institution early stage. which must do to cope immediately. In this paper, quick disposal decides to examine about dictionary perception system that is possible method.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.201-213
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• 2010

Recently, plans of tunnel and construction have increased. Unfortunately, the more we have tunnels, the more we have accidents in there. Because an accident or a fire in the tunnel is fatal to user safety, social concerns are focusing on the disaster prevention facilities. Cross passage tunnel is regarded as one of the useful disaster prevention facilities, which is increasing, while there were only few studies about the support system. This study tried to verify whether the support system is appropriate or not with empirical methods-theoretical methods and back analysis using measurement data. Additionally, we also looked into the range of reinforcement in accordance with strength/stress ratio of rock mass.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.727-736
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• 2021

Road tunnel lengths are increasing. Some 1,300 tunnels with 1,102 km in length had been increased till 2019 from 2010. There are 64 tunnels over 3,000 m in length, with their total length adding up to 276.7 km. Safety facilities in the event of a tunnel fire are critical so as to prevent large-scale casualties. Standards for installing disaster prevention facilities are being proposed based on the guidelines of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, but they may be limited to deep underground tunnels. This study was undertaken to provide guidelines for the spacing of evacuation connection passages and the widths of evacuation connection doors. Evacuation with various spacing and widths was simulated in regards to evacuation time, which is the measure of safety, using the evacuation analysis simulation software EXODUS Ver.6.3 and the fire/smoke analysis software SMARTFIRE Ver.4.1. Evacuation connection gates with widths of 0.9 m and 1.2 m, and spacings of 150 m to 250 m, were set to every 20 m. In addition, longitudinal slopes of 6 % and 0 % were considered. It was determined to be safe when the evacuation completion time was shorter than the delay diffusion time. According to the simulation results, all occupants could complete evacuation before smoke spread regardless of the width of the evacuation connection door when the longitudinal slope was 6 % and the interval of evacuation connection passage was 150 m. When the evacuation connection passage spacing was 200 m and the evacuation connection gate width was 1.2 m, all occupants could evacuate when the longitudinal slope was 0 %. Due to difference in evacuation speed according to the longitudinal slope, the evacuation time with a 6 % slope was 114 seconds shorter (with the 190 m connection passage) than with a 0 % slope. A shorter spacing of evacuation connection passages may reduce the evacuation time, but this is difficult to implement in practice because of economic and structural limitations. If the width of the evacuation junction is 1.2 m, occupants could evacuate faster than with a 0.9 m width. When the width of a connection door is 1.2 m with appropriate connection passage spacing, it might provide a means to increase economic efficiency and resolve structural limitations while securing evacuation safety.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.84-84
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• 2011

터널화재의 위험요소에 대한 해석을 위해서는 실제 상황을 재현한 실대형 실험이 가장 유용하겠지만 현실적으로 시간적, 공간적, 경제적인 제약이 따르기 때문에 CFD Modeling 기술의 이용 및 검증이 필요하고, 실제 상황에 가까운 현상의 재현을 위해서는 시뮬레이션의 정확도에 대한 향상이 필수적이다. 또한, CFD Modeling을 터널화재에 적용할 때 시뮬레이션의 질에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 요소들에 대한 결정이 선행되어야 한다. 우선, 터널의 기하학적 구조와 경계조건의 확립이 필요한데 필요한 정보를 얻기 위해서 어느정도 길이의 터널이 적절한지에 대해 생각할 필요가 있으며, 단면변화에 대한 결정을 통해 모델링을 수행하여야 한다. 모델링 작업이 선행된 후에 화재의 위치, 성장률, 최대 크기, 환기시스템 사항 등의 고려가 필요한데 이러한 조건들은 CFD Modeling의 결과에 직접적인 영향을 주기 때문에 충분한 사전조사가 이루어져야 하고, 각 사항들의 변수를 고려하여 다양한 화재시나리오의 도출이 가능할 수 있다. 마지막으로, 화재에서 발생된 열중 약 30%가 복사에 의해 주위 벽으로 전달될 수 있고 열은 연기가 가득찬 영역내에서 재분배될 수 있는데, 열전달 및 연기의 유동 등에 관한 자료를 기초로 화재현상에 대한 분석이 가능하다. 이러한 과정들을 통해 실제 상황에 가까운 설계화재 시나리오를 예측할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라 최장대터널인 죽령터널에 대해 합리적인 가정을 통한 설계화재 시나리오를 기초로 화재시뮬레이션은 FDS(Fire Dynamics Simulator) 프로그램을 사용하여 화재 및 연기의 이동 양상을 분석하고, 피난시뮬레이션은 SIMULEX 프로그램을 사용하여 피난시간을 예측 함으로써 터널화재의 CFD Modeling에 의한 피난안전성을 검토하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.541-544
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• 2011

경량전철시스템은 운전자가 없는 무인으로 운행하며 각종 설비가 자동으로 제어되도록 되어있기 때문에 일상적인 고장이나 문제는 어느 정도 안전대책이 마련되겠지만 테러 또는 고의에 의해 일어나는 사고는 대비하기가 어려운 실정이다. 정거장에서의 화재발생은 많은 보고서와 기준들이 정리되어 있으나 지하 터널이 본선 구간에서의 피난을 위한 시설의 적정성 및 피난시간에 대한 연구는 부족하다. 본 연구에서 경량전철 시스템의 운전 중에 지하터널에서 발생 가능한 사고시나리오를 고려하여 화재시뮬레이션 및 피난시뮬레이션을 실시하여 비교하고, 그 결과에 따라 대안을 도출하였다.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.249-256
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• 2015

Quantitative Mokpo-Jeju undersea tunnel is currently on the basis plan for reviewing validation. As for the cross section shape for express boat of 105 km line, sing track two tube is being reviewed as the Euro tunnel equipped with service tunnel. Also, 10 carriage trains have been planned to operate 76 times for one way a day. So, in this study, quantitative risk assessment method is settled, which is intended to review the optimal space between evacuation connection hall of tunnel by quantitative risk analysis method. In addition to this, optimal evacuation connection hall space is calculated by the types of cross section, which are Type 3 (double track single tube), Type 1 (sing track two tube), and Type 2 (separating double track on tube with partition). As a result, cross section of Type 2 is most efficient for securing evacuation safety, and the evacuation connection space is required for 350 m in Type 1, 400 m in Type 2, and 1,500 m in Type3 to satisfy current domestic social risk assessment standard.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.19 no.1 s.57
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• pp.87-92
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• 2005

In this paper, numerical simulation are conducted to predict the characteristics of the heat transfer and smoke flow and evacuation in the road tunnel. Fire source are used about 30 MW and the turbulent flow characteristics are considered by standard k-epsilon turbulent model. The effect of transient thermal behavior and disaster prevention can be used for designing the road tunnel.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.809-822
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• 2018

A quantitative risk assessment has been introduced to quantitatively evaluate fire risk as a means of performance based fire protection design in the design of railway tunnel disaster prevention facilities. However, there are insufficient studies to examine the effect of various risk factors on the risk. Therefore, in this study, the risk assessment was conducted on the model tunnel in order to examine the effects of the evacuation start time delay and the fire growth curve on the quantitative risk assessment. As a result of the analysis of the scenario, the fatalities occurred mainly when escapes in the same direction as the direction of the fire smoke movement. In addition, after the FED exceeded 0.3, the maximum fatalities occurred within 10 minutes. In the range of relatively low risk, distance between cross passages, evacuation delay time and fire growth curve were found to affect the risk, but they were found to have little effect on the condition that the risk reached the limit. Especially, in this study, it was evaluated that the evacuation delay time reduction, fire intensity and duration reduction effect were not observed when the distance between cross passages was more than 1500 m.