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Developments in Fire Sprinkler Technology

  • Rice, Douglas
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.606-609
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    • 1997
  • Technology in fire sprinklers has exploded. There is more private fire sprinkler research now than ever before. New technology in fire sprinklers has tested the existing standard and found that it was wrong in some cases, it has provided new sprinklers that control fire better while reducing the cost of the overall system. This expansion of the types and applications of fire sprinklers has created a great need for education for the Authorities Having Jurisdiction and the Engineer as they must be able to make informed decisions regarding this new technology. Significant research has been done at Factory Mutual Research Corporation and Underwriters Laboratory in the United States. Full scale fire testing is done to prove any new technology did not lower the level of protection of existing fire sprinkler system installations. In each and every case, the existing level of fire protection was the baseline against which the new sprinklers were tested. This level can not be lowered for the test to be considered a success. This is intended to be an overview of the developments in fire sprinklers. Although extensive detail is not included, the overall aspects of these developments can be discussed. The research that will be covered will include the following general subjects: high piled and rack storage sprinkler protection without in-rack sprinklers, extended coverage and quick response sprinklers for ordinary and light hazard occupancies, as well as special sprinklers and their applications.

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BIVARIATE DYNAMIC CUMULATIVE RESIDUAL TSALLIS ENTROPY

  • SATI, MADAN MOHAN;SINGH, HARINDER
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.35 no.1_2
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    • pp.45-58
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    • 2017
  • Recently, Sati and Gupta (2015) proposed two measures of uncertainty based on non-extensive entropy, called the dynamic cumulative residual Tsallis entropy (DCRTE) and the empirical cumulative Tsallis entropy. In the present paper, we extend the definition of DCRTE into the bivariate setup and study its properties in the context of reliability theory. We also define a new class of life distributions based on bivariate DCRTE.

Risk Assessment for Hazardous Construction Work Recognized by Workers (건설위험직종 작업자의 위험체감도 평가)

  • Son, Ki-Sang;Lee, Shin-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.21 no.3 s.75
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2006
  • This study is to investigate the related materials such as domestic law regulation, research paper, research report, and the other material, and to suggest suitable counter measures, to find out hazard degree for its works of workers and work place through direct survey, in order to determine risk score of each hazardous work which is designated by the Government, without consideration of labour's consciousness against risk level at a site. Therefore, a new questionnaire survey related to the decision of risk level are made and distributed to find out what risk level each worker recognizes. Also, the authors tried to approach reasonable conclusions after discussing reasonability of qualification standard and improving ideas of worker at hazardous work places with worker, faculty member, H&S manager, labour union. And the results show hazard degrees by each work kind of the above: 3.75 for working with machinery, 3.7 for steel structure, 3.5 for operation of tower crane, 3.51 for retaining wall, 3.85 for form work, 3.46 for scaffolding are obtained. This quantified risk can be applied to establishing a reasonable system to keep safe against hazardous works.

Preliminary Hazard Analysis for ADS-B equipped Aircraft (ADS-B장착 항공기 예비위험분석)

  • Kim, Yong-Seok;Choi, Young-Jae;Shin, Dae-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.58-63
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    • 2008
  • ICAO has recommended ADS-B implementation that is considered as next generation surveillance system to meet the air traffic capability and aviation safety. However, safety verification for the new ADS-B technology should be carried out in advance. FAA performed a preliminary hazard analysis for ADS-B equipped aircraft through Capstone program in Alaska in order to reduce aviation accidents. The present study deals with ADS-B concept, FAA Capstone program and PHA for ADS-B equipped aircraft. We expect that this paper will be a valuable material to assess ADS-B risk when it is applied to the domestic environment.

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Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in cooked fish and shellfish (조리어패류 중 다환방향족탄화수소 분석)

  • Hu, Soojung;Park, Sungkuk;Jin, Sunhee;Choi, Dongmi
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2009
  • The following concentrations of some PAHs were investigated; [benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo (b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, benzo(g, h, i)perylene, indeno (1,2,3-c,d)pyrene] in fish(n=168) and shellfish(n=40). The methodology involved saponification and extraction with n-hexane, clean-up on Sep-Pak Florisil Cartridges and determination by HPLC/FLD (High Performance Liquid Chromatograph/Fluorescence Detector). Overall method recoveries for 8 PAHs spiked into these products ranged from 88 to 112%. The mean level of benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k) fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, benzo(g,h,i)perylene and indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene in cooked fish was ND, ND, 0.0009, ND, 0.01, ND, ND, ND and in cooked shellfish was 1.84, 3.51, 0.81, 0.38, 0.39, 0.04, 0.20, ND, respectively.

Preliminary Hazard Analysis of Vehicle with G-SAVE Technology (G-SAVE 공법 탑재 차량의 예비위험성평가)

  • Ui Pil Chong;Hyun Chul Park;Young Soo Park;Byung Chul Ahn;Deok Soo Han;Hyeon Jun Jeon
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.283-287
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    • 2023
  • The structures for road safety are guard rails that protect the cars and passengers. If an accident occurs on the roads after a long period of installation, it may escalate into a major disaster. In order to repair many guard rails, the existing repair method of replacing them with new ones requires enormous financial resources. To solve this problem, the G-SAVE method was developed to repair the guard rail without replacing them. This method removes the rust on the surface of the guard rail and then performs ambient-dip galvanizing coating on it without replacing the new ones. No studies or reports have yet been made on the risk assessment of harmful substances, vehicles for these entire processes. Therefore, this paper focuses on risk assessment using the PHA (Preliminary Hazard Analysis) technique and conducts risk assessment for concept design stage of the coating vehicles.

A Study on the Estimating Rate of Safety Management Cost in Building Work (건축공사 안전관리비 비율 산정 모형에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Ki-Sang;Gal, Won-Mo;Yang, Hak-Su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.33-40
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    • 2007
  • Standard safety management costs can not be applied to each site with same rate, it is very difficult, because it depends on the experience, work method, work kind, work progress schedule, and hazard level of each construction company. Therefore, this study is to find out hazard level of each work kinds through questionnaire and interview and investigate analyze the status which standard safety management costs have been used. Also, this study is to show reasonable rates of standard safety management costs in construction industry and to set up countermeasures against those problem after reviewing its status in korea with in Japan and Europe. This study is to investigate eleven project kinds of domestic system, first, and to investigate eleven items of apartment bldg, office. Also this study is to investigate and analyze performed costs of presently processing worker finished work so that it shows a new reasonable rate against standard safety management costs in construction industry, in order to make basical data and material to be systemized.

PROBABILISTIC APPROACH ON SEISMOGENIC POTENTIAL OF A FAULT

  • Chang, Chun-Joong
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.43 no.5
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    • pp.437-446
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    • 2011
  • Siting criteria for nuclear power plants require that faults be characterized as to their potential for generating earthquakes, or that the absence of the potential for these occurrences be demonstrated. Because the definition of active faults in Korea has been applied by the deterministic method, which depends on the numerical age of fault movement, the possibility of inherent uncertainties exists in determining the maximum earthquake from the fault sources for seismic design. In an attempt to overcome these problems this study suggests new criteria and a probabilistic quantitative diagnostic procedure that could estimate whether a fault is capable of generating earthquakes in the near future.

Scenario Analysis Technology for Flood Risk Management in the Taihu Basin

  • Changwei, Hu
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.140-148
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    • 2010
  • The Taihu Basin is located in the east coast of China, where the threats of frequent floods have induced construction of massive, complex, hierarchical flood defense systems over the interconnected river networks. Digital modeling of flooding processes and quantitative damage assessment still remain challenging due to such complexity. The current research uses an integrated approach to meet this challenge by combining multiple types of models within a GIS platform. A new algorithm is introduced to simulate the impacts of the flood defense systems, especially the large number of polders, on floods distributions and damages.

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A Study on the Hazard Analyses of Construction for Base Station of Mobile Communication (이동통신 기지국 공사의 위험요인 분석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-wook;Kwon, Soon-joon;Yi, Young-seop
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2015
  • As the domestic communication industry has been made rapid progresses, the construction of base stations are also expanded yearly from more than 86,000 ones in the year 2005 to over 300,000 ones in 2013. While the new construction and rebuilt works have been rapidly increased, there has been not tried about the analysis as well as the control of hazards for the construction works. This study is conducted to do not only the focus interview for 27 expert groups who are engaged in the construction works and safety, but also the questionnaires for AHP analysis which is suggested by the Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency for 92 persons who are engaged in the construction works in order to analyze the hazards of construction works for base stations. The high ranked risk works which are acquired from the two methods are fall under installation of antennae, struck by the hand tools and construction materials under installation of antennae, fall during going up and down the steel tower and telegraph poles and the fall by electric shock during the underground cable works. The control for the above hazards are the installation of fall protection equipments, the installation of safety nets for falling objects and the installation of protection equipment of electric shock.