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A study on the Means of Egress Codes for Interior Architecture in the United States - Focused on Evacuation Elements in the Interior Architectural Design - (미국의 실내건축 피난 규정에 관한 연구 - 실내건축계획에 있어 피난 요소를 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Young-Sung;Cho, Sung-O
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.24-32
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    • 2018
  • The law reflects the situation of the times, understands the society, and shows the will of the state and the community. The Means of Egress should be maintained from design to construction, supervision, as well as use, in order to protect the lives and property of the residents as well as the safe use of the facilities. However, Interior Architects are think that evacuation and safety regulations are complex elements that change frequently and may inhibit the idea of design. The purpose of this study is to propose a design method for the use of safe facilities in the interior architectural design on the evacuation regulations affecting the actual design by the IBC(the International Building Code) and NFPA(National Fire Protection Association) LSC (Life Safety Code). The research method is to investigate and analyze the provisions related to the evacuation of interior architecture in the US and to understand the current regulations and the evacuation regulations. We suggest to design method to the details of the hallway, corridors, aisle accessway, door way, exit path, In particular, the design of furniture, tables and chairs layout that could be obstacles to evacuation situations is presented.

Multi-body Dynamic Structural Dynamic Analysis of a Canopy System for Supersonic Fighter Considering Backup Emergency Egress Conditions (대체 비상탈출 조건을 고려한 초음속 전투기용 캐노피 작동부 구조해석)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Dong-Man;Kim, Young-Woo;Yang, Jian-Ming
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 2007
  • In this study, analysis of structural design criteria for the canopy actuating device has been conducted considering the aerodynamic breakaway capabilities of jettisonable canopy system. Unsteady aerodynamic loads for the opened canopy configuration at passively controlled jettision mode were computed using CFD method. The general purpose multi-body finite element code, SAMCEF Mecano, is used in the implemented analyses for the passive jettision condition. The recommended altitude and speed of aircraft was suggested as design criteria of aerodynamic breakaway capability of jettisonable canopy system as a bakup egress method when normal canopy jettison sequence malfunctioned. Aerodynamic breakaway condition of jettisonable canopy was also simulated and the fracture load conditions of canopy actuator were investigated.

Discomfort Assessment of Truck Ingress and Egress Motions Based on Simulated Muscle Contraction Forces (모사된 근육 수축력을 바탕으로 한 트럭 승하차 동작의 불편도 평가)

  • Choi, Nam-Chul;Shim, Ji-Sung;Lee, Sang-Hyung;Lee, Ki-Kwang;Lee, Sang-Hun
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.62-70
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes a novel discomfort assessment method for truck ingress and egress motions based on the maximum-voluntary-contraction (MVC) ratios of muscles obtained by biomechanical analysis of human musculoskeletal models. In this study, a human motion to enter and exit a truck cabin with different types and heights of footsteps is first measured using an optical motion capture system and load sensors. Next, in a biomechanical analysis system, a human musculoskeletal model with contacting conditions on footsteps and handles is modeled, and then joint torques and muscles forces are calculated by inverse dynamics of the musculoskeletal model with the motion data. Finally, the MVC ratios for the muscles are calculated and their statistical values are used as the measure of discomfort. To ensure the feasibility of our method, subjective discomfort levels have been investigated through the participants' experiments and questionnaires and compared to the results of our method. Comparing to the existing methods based on joint angles or torques, our approach provide a more essential criterion for discomfort because it is based on the muscle contraction by which an active human motion is basically generated.

A Study on the Improvement of the Evacuation in Ward of the General Hospital (종합병원 병동부 피난환경 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Woo-Seok;Chai, Choul-Gyun
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.15 no.5 s.58
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    • pp.202-208
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest architectural planning guideline for the improvement of the evacuation environment in a ward. To suggest of guideline, the problem of irrational domestic criteria is searched according to compare National fire code (NFPA101, Life safety code) with Korea building law. This study includes stairs, corridors and exit door etc. but excludes fire facilities. To verify effectiveness of suggested guideline, egress simulation is run that based on databases according to literature survey. The results of this study could be summarized as follow: Suggested guidelines are subdivision(fire partition), evacuation by elevator, secure useful waiting space of elevator hall and smokeproof enclosures, the corridor is divided by fire or smoke barriers corridor from hazardous room, only wheeled items are arranged in corridors of a ward story. The result of computer simulation for suggested guidelines verify that egress time can be decreased 20% or above.

A Study on ASET(available safe egress time) for Subway Station of Light Weight Railcar Using FDS (FDS를 이용한 경량철도 지하역사의 피난허용시간 연구)

  • Kim, Chi-Hun;Lee, Duck-Hee;Jung, Woo-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.361-366
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구에서는 무인운영이 예정되어 있는 경량철도 지하역사 화재 시 안전대책을 강구하기 위하여 다양한 시나리오의 화재상황을 모사하여 FDS 사용코드를 이용해 화재유동현상을 분석하였다. 해석경계조건은 전동차 내부공간을 포함한 지하 3개 층과 설계에 반영된 환기설비를 적용하였으며, 약 500만 개의 격자를 34개 블록으로 나누어 계산하였다. 비상탈출 동선을 파악하여 주요 위치에서 피난경로상의 각 층 바닥으로 부터 1 m 높이의 한계온도와 연기층의 도달시간을 시나리오 별로 분석하여 보았다.

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Study on the Horizontally Installed Emergency Exit in Apartment Houses (아파트 하향식 피난구에 대한 고찰)

  • Yeo, In-Hwan;Min, Byung-Yeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2010.05b
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    • pp.91-93
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the regulation about HEE(horizontally installed emergency exit) established at upper 4story in apartment houses was introduced by revising enforcement degree of Building Act. HEE is a facility for egress to lower story through floor breach and ladder system so that it gives a useful evaquation way directly to an individual household in apartment when they failed to evacuate through the entrance door. HEE may offer an opportunity to optain two way egress path ways instead of evacuation space at balcony and through path way to adjacent household in building and that might be an big strengh. but it needs to guarantee for against the crime, getting detailed reviews for being security and supplementation of fire test methods.

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A Study on Characteristics of Spatial Configuration and Human Evacuation Behavior in Multi-Plex Theater of Jinju (진주지역 복합영화관의 공간구조와 피난행태특성에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Eun Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate specific crowding areas resulted from diverse physical factors of multi-plex theaters in a fire evacuation, and more accurately predict the evacuation route of people. To achieve these purpose, the architectural characteristics of three multi-plex theaters in Jinju have been chosen, and the evacuation experiments through the computer simulation called Simulex were carried out for each on the these theaters. The conclusions from this study are as follows: (1) Crowding usually happens cross areas between theater inside and corridors, and Crowding rate depending on the number of cross areas. (2) It is necessary to design the escape routes being employed ordinary times. And the egress routes planning should be integrated into space programming at the early stage of building design.

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