• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제32권2호
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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.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.284-292
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• 2016

Background: In Ghana, fire incidents have become a regular occurrence, with thousands of lives and millions of dollars lost every year. Hardly a day passes without news of a fire outbreak in some part of Ghana, causing fear and panic among the people. This generates much discussion centering on rumors relating to politics, sabotage, misfortune, religious differences, etc. This article seeks to discuss the trend of fire incidents occurring in Ghana from 2000 to 2013 and the different ways to prevent these incidents. Methods: The pattern of fire incidence in Ghana as a whole as well as in each region is discussed. The study took into consideration the causes, mechanisms, as well as preventive measures against the fire menace. Data were obtained from the head office of Ghana's national fire service. Results: It was noticed that in general the rate of fire incidence increased each year. This increase was attributed to several factors: rate of population growth and industrialization, unstable electricity, urbanization, negligence, illegal electrical connection, etc. The cause of fire was categorized into domestic, industrial, vehicular, institutional, electrical, commercial, bush, and others. Among these causes, domestic fire accounted for 41% of the total number of fire incidents in the country. Conclusion: Finally, this study presents several recommendations to help prevent and mitigate fire incidents in Ghana.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2013

과거 11년간의 국내 화재 오인출동 자료를 통계적 기법을 활용하여 분석하였다. 오인출동은 95 % 신뢰수준에서 연평균 $48,371{\pm}5,763$건이 발생하였고, 이는 화재진압을 위한 출동보다 약 1.2배 높은 수준이다. 여러 원인 중 경보오동작에 의한 오인출동이 증가하고 있으며, 오인출동의 원인은 시 도별 인구수에 따라 다른 양상을 보이는데 대도시에서는 타는 냄새에 의한 오인출동이 많은 반면 농어촌에서는 쓰레기 소각에 의한 오인출동이 많았다. 지역별 평균오인출동간격을 계산한 결과 대전은 20.61 hr/회로 t=1 hr 일 때 95.26 %의 신뢰도를 보이는 반면, 경기도의 경우 평균오인출동간격은 0.58 hr/회로 t=1 hr 일 때 신뢰도가 17.91 %에 불과하였다.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.69-86
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• 2007

The fire department has one of the most important role as public resources of response to disasters in the aspect of supply and the adequate distribution of resources of response is essential, but the distribution of the response capability to disaster of fire department does not reflect the regional hazard vulnerability and hazard risks. Researchers performed database process with simple mapping based on the regional fire disaster response capability and the regional hazard vulnerability and hazard risks. The cities and towns are divided to four types each, total eight types and relative threat ratios are extracted from every type. The fire disaster response capability was extracted from number of firemen and fire vehicles in defined region. The distribution of the fire disaster response capability was inadequate and not matching to relative threat especially in small cities and some types of towns. The regional relative threat and resources should be analyzed by more delicate mapping and software development in the future.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.1821-1832
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• 2005

This study realizes the conceptual method to predict combustion instability in actual full-scale combustion chamber of rocket engines by experimental tests with model (sub-scale) chamber. The model chamber was designed based on the methodologies proposed in the previous work regarding geometrical dimensions and operating conditions, and hot-fire test procedures were followed to obtain stability boundaries. From the experimental tests, two instability regions are presented by the parameters of combustion-chamber pressure and mixture (oxidizer/fuel) ratio, which are customary for combustor designers. It is found that instability characteristics in the chamber with the adopted jet injectors can be explained by the correlation between the characteristic burning or mixing time and the characteristic acoustic time: In each instability region, dynamic behaviors of flames are investigated to verify the hydrodynamically-derived characteristic lengths of the jet injectors. Large-amplitude pressure oscillation observed in upper instability region is found to be generated by lifted-off flames.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.237-245
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• 2017

This paper presents a fire detection algorithm using color and motion models from video sequences. The proposed method detects change in color and motion of overall regions for detecting fire, and thus, it can be implemented in both fixed and pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) cameras. The proposed algorithm consists of three parts. The first part exploits color models of flames and smoke. The candidate regions in the video frames are extracted with the hue-saturation-value (HSV) color model. The second part models the motion information of flames and smoke. Optical flow in the fire candidate region is estimated, and the spatial-temporal distribution of optical flow vectors is analyzed. The final part accumulates the probability of fire in successive video frames, which reduces false-positive errors when fire-like color objects appear. Experimental results from 100 fire videos are shown, where various types of smoke and flames appear in indoor and outdoor environments. According to the experiments and the comparison, the proposed fire detection algorithm works well in various situations, and outperforms the conventional algorithms.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.64-72
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• 2015

본 연구는 충남지역 소방분야종사자를 대상으로 일반안전, 생활안전 그리고 소방안전에 대한 의식조사를 목적으로 실시하였다. 연구는 설문조사로 진행되었으며 설문응답자는 소방공무원, 소방업체종사자, 안전관련 공무원 등 534명이다. 설문결과는 SPSS win 19.0을 사용하여 빈도분석 등의 통계처리를 하였다. 본 연구에서 설문의 신뢰도는 Cronbach' ${\alpha}=0.710{\sim}0.807$이다. 조사결과에 의하면 국민의 안전의식수준이 높다고 생각하는 응답자가 전체 응답자의 15%로 소방분야종사자들은 국민의 안전의식수준이 낮다고 인식하고 있었다. 소방안전의식에 대해 소방공무원은 5점 기준 4.2의 인식을 가지며, 안전관련 공무원은 3.59의 안전의식수준을 나타내고 있다. 안전의식수준은 소방공무원 > 소방업체종사자 > 안전관련 공무원 순으로 조사되었다. 조사결과에 의하면 안전에 대한 인식의 차이를 줄이기 위한 노력이 필요하다고 할 수 있다.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.9-13
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• 2017

In this study, the height of the flame required to estimate the heat flow path and flame spread in pool fire has been applied by the empirical formula, but it is calculated without applying the pressure and temperature parameters of the fire room. Until now, the height of the flame applied to pool fire was $l_F=0.235Q^{2/5}-1.02D$ in the Heskestad empirical formula, but accurate temperature calculation was not possible due to the temperature and pressure which are not influenced by the flame height. Therefore, applying the temperature and pressure around it can calculate the exact flame height, which can be applied to fire investigation and fire dynamics. The structure of the flame is divided into a continuous flame, an intermittent flame, and a buoyancy flame, but it is assumed that the flame height is calculated from the visual aspect to the intermittent flame region, and the temperature of the buoyancy flame is very low. The effect of heat of vaporization on the height of flame was investigated. The results showed that flame height was different according to the pressure and temperature around the fire room.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.665-671
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• 2010

In the present study a 1D-3D numerical simulation was performed to analyze the fire safety in a rescue station of a long railroad tunnel equipped with a mechanical ventilation. The behavior of hot air was studied for the emergency operation mode of ventilation system in case of fire in the rescue station. The 1D simulation was carried out for entire tunnel region. Detailed 3D CFD simulation was performed for the rescue station area in the central region of the tunnel by using the result of the 1D simulation as the boundary condition of the 3D simulation. Various type of cross passage installation were evaluated for the prevention of smoke diffusion to suggest the optimized interval of the cross passages in the rescue tunnel.

• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.1470-1481
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• 2018

Building-level response to post-earthquake fire hazards in steel buildings has been assessed using primarily two-dimensional analyses of the lateral force resisting system. This approach may not adequately consider potential vulnerabilities in the gravity framing system. For this reason, three-dimensional (3D) finite element models of a 10-story case study building with perimeter moment resisting frames were developed to analyze post-earthquake fire events and better understand building response. Earthquakes are simulated using ground motion time histories, while Eurocode parametric time-temperature curves are used to represent compartment fires. Incremental dynamic analysis and incremental fire analysis procedures capture a range of hazard intensities. Findings show that the structural response due to earthquake and fire hazards are somewhat decoupled from one another. Regardless of the level of plastic hinging present in the moment framing system due to a seismic event, gravity column failure is the initiating failure mode in a fire event.