• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.20 no.3 s.71
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• pp.53-57
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• 2005

This paper presents development of a classification system for an electrical fire investigation. In order to reduce an electrical fires and establish detailed prevention plans, the collection of an electrical fire causes and base data are very important. Based on this data, a new classification system for an electrical fire investigation was developed and the direction to the classification system was suggested by fundamental analysis. All of the collected information is analyzed by bottom-up method. Criteria items which based on base data were categorized to classify items. The classification of items were found out as follows : basic condition fire scene condition, fire sign, fire cause. Particularly, the fire cause category is classified. A new developed classification system for an electrical fire investigation will be used to analyse electrical fires easily and efficiently.

• International Journal of Safety
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.17-21
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• 2007

This paper aims at the statistical analysis of electrical fire and classification of electrical fire causes to collect electrical fires data efficiently. Electrical fire statistics are produced to monitor the number and characteristics of fires attended by fire fighters, including the causes and effects of fire so that action can be taken to reduce the human and financial cost of fire. Electrical fires make up the majority of fires in Korea(including nearly 30% of total fires according to recent figures), The incorrect and biased knowledge for electrical fires changed the classification of certain types of fires, from non-electrical to electrical. It is convenient and required to develop the standardized form that makes, in the assessment of the cause of electrical fires, the fire fighters directly ticking the appropriate box on the fire report form or making an assessment of a text description. Therefore, it is highly recommended to develop electrical fire cause classification and electrical fire assessment on the fire statistics in order to categorize and assess electrical fires exactly. In this paper newly developed electrical fire cause classification structure, which is well-defined hierarchical structure so that there are not any relationship or overlap between cause categories, is suggested. Also fire statistics systems of foreign countries are introduced and compared.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.36-40
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• 2009

This paper presents research about the development of electrical fire cause classification in order to improve the reliability of electrical fire statistics and to collect electrical fires data efficiently. The incorrect and biased knowledge for electrical fires changed the classification of certain types of fires, from non-electrical to electrical. It is convenient and required to develop the standardized form that makes, in the assessment of the cause of electrical fires, the fire investigators directly ticking the appropriate box on the fire report form or making an assessment of a text description. In this study, newly developed electrical fire cause classification structure, which is well-defined hierarchical structure so that there are not any relationship or overlap between cause categories, is suggested. Also the suggested classification structure can be used for electrical fire investigation and statistics, which minimizes the mistake that diagnose non-electrical fires into electrical ones.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.466-471
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• 2007

Electrical fires form over 30 percent of fires, but the study on the reliability of electrical fire statistics is not performed. Electrical roe occupancy was very high due to investigating and classifying fires, which is not directly continuous with electrical cause, as electrical fire because insufficiency of cause classification method or system, and the problems of the reliability of electrical fire statistics were presented. So, the reliability of electrical fire statistics must be guaranteed by improvement of the existing cause classification method of electrical fire. This paper analyzed the problems of electrical rue statistics by the existing cause classification method of electrical fire and presented the new method to classify causes of electrical fire.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.42-43
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• 2017

In Korea, The buildings are getting higher and bigger, and also the fire risk is getting increased. The PBD was introduced in 2009 for the fire safety of these buildings, but the study on making scenario based on actual case of fire is insufficient. Therefore on this study, it will conduct an experiment about initial fire classification and making fire scenario based on that actual fire statistic investigation classification of PBD buildings as official and commercial facilities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.311-318
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• 1997

On April 27,1993, a forest fire occurred in Morito-area, Manba-city, Gunma-prefecture Japan. Under the prevailing strong winds, the fire spread and extended to the largest scale ever in Gunma-prefecture. The author chartered a helicopter on May 5, one week after the fire was extinguished, and took aerial photos of tile damaged area, and investigated the condition. of the fire through field survey and data collection. The burnt area extended. over about 100 hectares, and the damage amounted to about 190 million yen (about two million dollar). The fire occurred at a steep mountainous area and under strong winds, therefore, md and topography strongly facilitated the spreading, It is the purpose of this paper to report a damage investigation of the fire and to develop the forecasting method of forest fires based on the topographical analysis and spreading speed of fire. In the first place, I analyze the topographical structure of the regions which became the bject of this study with some topographical factors, and construct a land form classification ap. Secondly, I decide the dangerous condition of each region in the land form classification map according to the direction of the wind and spreading speed of f'kre. In the present paper, I try to forecast forest fires in Morito area, and the basic results for the forecasting method of forest fires were obtained with the topographical classification system and spreading speed of fire.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.20-25
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• 2011

This study presents on the fire hazard analysis of communication cable in buildings. In order to analyze fire hazards for communication cable IEC 60332-1, UL 94 and cone calorimeter test are conducted. The number of cable used to experiment is 10 communication cable which are generally applied to data communication in buildings. The results show that 9 cables do meet the performance requirement of IEC 60332-1 and 8 cables are V-0 classification. IEC 60332-1 and UL 94 test are inadequate for fire hazard classification. The various parameters obtained by cone calorimeter test such as HRR, peak HRR, smoke production rate and so on. Also it is able to evaluate multiply fire hazard for communication cable with cone calorimeter test results.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.90-98
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• 1998

In order to establish detailed plans for fire protection and reduce the possible fire accidents in the future, collection of domestic and foreign fire accident cases and fundamental analysis are very important. In this study the classification model for fire accidents was developed and the direction to a new model was suggested by comparison ours with the accidents classification model of NFPA of United States of America and Japan. A new developed PC-based database program for fire accidents (FADBS) was used to analyse fire accidents easily and efficiently.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.99-104
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• 2008

The combustion properties of sandwich panels were tested and analyzed according to ISO 13784-1(Room Corner Test for Sandwich panel building systems) test method for the purpose of establishing the classification of reaction to fire performance. Several variables including heat release rate, smoke production rate, FIGRA, SMOGRA, and so on, were analyzed for specific four materials about sandwich panel systems on each 5 times, totally 20 times. Finally, elements for Classification system were suggested and evaluations for those elements were made.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.20 no.4 s.64
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• pp.105-109
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• 2006

Fire station is a response agency of disaster management. Its various field experience and materials could build up to database to support fire prevention and fire fighting, but it has not been worked out efficiently. To overcome this inefficiency, National Emergency Management Agency(NEMA) has made total improvement in "National Fire Investigation Data Classification System" mainly done by its Fire Investigation and Analysis Team. This study reviews existing fire investigation and data accumulation and analysis process so that it could be used as a basic data for "National Fire Investigation Data Classification System" operation.