• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.117-122
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• 2008

Purpose: Surveys on poisoning usually involves intoxication rather than inhalation, skin contact, etc. Therefore, we examined the characteristics of patients who visited the emergency department in an industrial complex after acute industrial exposure to toxic materials. Methods: Medical records of patients exposed to toxic materials in the work places from April, 2006, to March, 2008, were analyzed retrospectively. Inhalation patients due to fire were excluded. Results: Subjects included 66 patients, with a mean age of $35.4{\pm}10.9$ years, mostly men (91%). Toxicity occurred in 51 patients (77%) by contact, 15 patients (23%) by inhalation, and none by oral ingestion. For toxic materials, 10 patients were exposed to hydrofluoric acid, 8 to hydrochloric acid, 7 to sodium hydroxide, 7 to metals, and others. The face and hands were the most frequent exposure site by contact. Most exposures were caused by accidents, with 29 cases (42%) exposed because of carelessness or not wearing protective equipment. Most complaints were pain on exposure site, but 7 of the inhalation patients complained of dyspnea. The majority of patients with contact exposure were discharged after wound care or observation. After inhalation exposure, 1 patient died and 5 patients were admitted to the intensive care unit. Conclusion: Major causes of workplace exposure were not wearing protective equipment or carelessness. Although contact exposures are usually benign, cautious observation and management are required in patients with inhalation exposure.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2021

고분자는 고유의 경량성 및 강성으로 인해 건축 자재에 두루 적용되는 소재이다. 그러나 건축 산업에서 빈번히 발생하는 화재 사고에서 대형 화재로의 확산을 일으키는 가장 큰 원인 중 하나가 가연 특성을 지니는 고분자라고 할 수 있다. 따라서 이를 해결하기 위한 방안으로 고분자 소재에 난연제를 첨가하여 난연 특성을 부여하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 추세이다. 이 중에서도 유기 인계 난연제는 고분자와의 혼화성이 우수하며, 독성이 낮은 장점을 가지고 있어 많은 주목을 받고 있다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 건축자재용으로 사용되는 친환경 고분자인 폴리락타이드의 난연성능을 확보하기 위하여 알콕시아민 기반의 유기 인계 난연제 구조를 설계 및 합성하여 이의 효과를 확인하는 것을 목적으로 둔다.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.43-47
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• 2019

Developed countries are operating an in-depth database in motor vehicle crashes nationwide. They do not rely solely on the police investigation reports that are responsible for motor vehicle crashes in each country but are developing into a useful database by expanding the categories of data through more indicators addition. In Korea, after implementing comprehensive measures to reduce traffic accident deaths in 2013, the medical centers participated in establishing the actual accident investigation system, which was called as the Korean In-Depth Accident Study (hereinafter KIDAS). This KIDAS database included more in-depth indicators as the types of accidents, types of vehicles, the injury severity, adequacy of safety devices, seating position of passengers. Although there are difficulties in establishing an actual accident investigation system including data collection due to various restrictions, if the system can cooperate with each other such as medical centers, insurance companies, police, fire and rescue services, towing companies, and car repair shops in the future, It would be expected to contribute to the development of safer vehicle, treatment system and traffic safety policy that lower the injury severity of occupant in the event of a motor vehicle crashes.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.225-233
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• 2021

Conventional submarine propulsion batteries have mainly used lead acid batteries, which have proved relatively safe, but in recent years, research on mounting lithium-ion batteries to improve the underwater operation capability of submarines is underway in advanced countries such as Japan. Korea has world-class technology in the development of electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries for energy storage, but fire safety accidents continue to occur in electric vehicles and energy storage lithium-ion batteries. In order to mount the lithium-ion battery in a submarine, it is necessary to check the safety as well as whether the performance is improved compared to the lead acid battery. Through the charge/discharge experiment of this lithium-ion battery module unit, it was possible to measure how much performance was improved compared to the lead acid battery. Safety tests were conducted on the lithium-ion battery module assuming that it was mounted on a submarine, and it was confirmed that safety was secured when applied to a submarine. Since many modules are mounted on actual submarines, it has been confirmed that it can be applied to submarine systems by simulating charge/discharge characteristics through Hardware-in-the Loop(HILS). Through the results of this study, the application of lithium-ion batteries to submarines is expected to significantly improve the sustainability of underwater operations.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.44-51
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• 2021

일반적으로 골든 타임은 인명 구조나 화재 진압 등의 사고 초기대응에 있어서 가장 중요한 시간을 의미한다. 골든 타임은 재난 상황별로 다르지만 화재나 구급에 있어서는 5분을 목표로 하고 있다. 하지만 실제 현장의 경우 구급차의 평균 출동 시간은 9분, 평균 이송 시간은 17.6분으로 골든 타임과 비교하여 상당히 큰 지연시간이 존재한다. 이러한 지연시간에는 다양한 원인이 존재하지만 가장 큰 원인은 교통체증이다. 해당 문제를 해결하기 위해 정부에서는 긴급 자동차 양보의무법 제정, 사고 발생률이 가장 높은 장소에 구급차 우선 배치 등을 골든 타임을 확보하고 있지만, 교통량이 빠른 속도로 증가하는 출퇴근 상황에서는 해결책이 되지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 신호등에 사운드 센서를 설치하여 수집된 소리 데이터를 활용한 딥러닝 기반 긴급차량 우선 신호 시스템을 제안하고 긴급차량의 주파수 대역을 추출하고 거리에 따라 다르게 나타나는 진폭 신호를 분류하는 실험을 진행하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.91-97
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• 2020

리튬이온 배터리(LIB)는 다른 배터리에 비해 수명이 길고, 에너지 밀도가 높으며, 자체 방전율이 낮아, 에너지 저장장치(ESS)로 선호되고 있다. 하지만, 2017~2019년 기간 동안 국내에서만도 28건의 화재사고가 발생하였으며, LIB의 운영 중 안전성 및 신뢰성을 보장하기 위해 LIB의 정확한 용량추정은 필수요소이다. 본 연구에서는 LIB의 충방전 cycle에 따른 용량변화를 예측하는 기계학습 기반 모델의 설계에 있어 중요한 요소인 최적 머신러닝 모델의 선정을 위해, Decision Tree, 앙상블학습법, Support Vector Regression, Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) 각각을 이용한 예측모델을 구현하고 성능비교를 실시하였다. 학습을 위해 NASA에서 제공하는 시험데이터를 사용하였으며, GPR이 가장 좋은 예측성능을 보였다. 이를 바탕으로 추가 시험데이터 학습을 통해 개선된 LIB 용량예측과 잔여 수명추정 모델을 개발하여, 운영 중 이상 감지 및 모니터링 성능을 높여, 보다 안전하고 안정된 ESS 운용에 활용하고자 한다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

Most factories deal with toxic or flammable chemicals in their industrial processes. These hazardous substances pose a risk of leakage due to accidents, such as fire and explosion. In the event of chemical release, massive casualties and property damage can result; hence, quantitative risk prediction and assessment are necessary. Several methods are available for evaluating chemical dispersion in the atmosphere, and most analyses are considered neutral in dispersion models and under far-field wind condition. The foregoing assumption renders a model valid only after a considerable time has elapsed from the moment chemicals are released or dispersed from a source. Hence, an initial dispersion model is required to assess risk quantitatively and predict the extent of damage because the most dangerous locations are those near a leak source. In this study, the dispersion model for initial consequence analysis was developed with three-dimensional unsteady advective diffusion equation. In this expression, instantaneous leakage is assumed as a puff, and wind velocity is considered as a coordinate transform in the solution. To minimize the buoyant force, ethane is used as leaked fuel, and two different diffusion coefficients are introduced. The calculated concentration field with a molecular diffusion coefficient shows a moving circular iso-line in the horizontal plane. The maximum concentration decreases as time progresses and distance increases. In the case of using a coefficient for turbulent diffusion, the dispersion along the wind velocity direction is enhanced, and an elliptic iso-contour line is found. The result yielded by a widely used commercial program, ALOHA, was compared with the end point of the lower explosion limit. In the future, we plan to build a more accurate and general initial risk assessment model by considering the turbulence diffusion and buoyancy effect on dispersion.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 대형 시설물의 재난 모니터링을 위해 시설물에서 발생 가능한 붕괴 및 화재 사고를 감지하고, 재난 상황 발생 시 IoT 기반의 시설물 내부 상황 인지를 위한 커스터마이징 비콘을 개발하고자 하였다. 기존 변형률 센서를 이용한 데이터 계측의 경우 유선으로 변형률 센서를 연결하여 계측하였지만, 본 연구는 이를 무선으로 변경하여 실시간으로 구조물 변형의 유·무를 모니터링이 가능하도록 하였다. 이 과정에서 휘트스톤 브릿지를 이용하기 위해 커스터마이징 비콘에 연결이 가능한 변형률 센서 모듈을 제작하였으며, 계측 데이터를 원격으로 확인하기 위한 시스템 구성을 진행하였다. 계측 데이터 검증을 위해 차세대융합기술연구원 15층 내에 10개의 커스터마이징 비콘과 2개의 게이트웨이를 설치하였으며, 계측 데이터 분석 결과 변형률 데이터값이 7~8 사이에 분포하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.36-43
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• 2022

Generally, in construction sites, the pipe support installation workers often use support pins of 9~10 mm which are much smaller than the safety standard sizes for work convenience. Although the safety certification standard thickness of the support pins is 11 mm, and the supervisors are often indifferent to this. Hence, products with far lower performance than the pipe support safety certification value of 40,000 N, which is applied in the supporting post-structural review, are used. Accordingly, this acts as a factor causing collapse accidents in the process of pouring concrete at the construction site. Therefore, this study performed compression experiments on new and reused pipe supports to determine how the thickness of the support pins affects the structural compression performance of the pipe support by considering the thickness of the support pins as a critical variable among various factors affecting the pipe support performance. In the course of the study, the compression test of the pipe support (V2, V4) for the new products showed that only 14 (58.3%) of the total 24 samples satisfied the safety certification standard value of 40,000 N, which indicates that more thorough quality control is required in the manufacturing process. Additionally, comparing the thickness of the support pins and their fracture shape shows that the pipes with support length of 4.0 m or longer are much more affected by the buckling of the entire length than the thickness of the support pins. Of the several factors affecting the performance of reused pipe supports, it was found that, similar to the new products, the use of support pins, with thickness of 12 mm rather than 11 mm, can satisfy the safety certification value more appropriately. Therefore, regardless of the state of usage, it could be concluded that it is necessary to use 12 mm products, whose thickness is larger than that of the safety certification standard value of 11 mm, to improve the performance of the pipe supports.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2023

현재 통용되고 있는 화석연료로부터 발생되는 환경오염에 대한 대안으로써 대기오염이 발생하지 않는 수소를 사용하기 위한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 하지만, 최근까지도 수소 누출에 의한 화재 및 폭발사고가 발생함에 따라 특수한 환경인 선박에서 수소를 상용화하기 위해 안전에 관한 연구가 더욱 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수소저장탱크가 설비된 수소연료전지 추진선박이 울산 장생포항을 운항하던 중 누출사고가 발생할 경우의 계절별 대안 시나리오와 최악의 시나리오를 가정하였다. 또한, 환경변수를 고려하기 위하여 기상청 2021년도 연평균 기상자료와 통계청 지리정보 자료를 토대로 ALOHA와 프로빗 분석을 통해 피해 영향 범위를 도출하였다. 복사열이 대안 시나리오와 최악의 시나리오 모두에서 과압과 화염의 피해 영향범위 보다 넓은 피해범위가 나타났고 프로빗 분석 결과 가정한 모든 구역에서 99%의 사망률을 확인하였다.