• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.105-114
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• 2008

This study analyzed recruiting system, competence requirement system, promotion system by competence verification, and expert training system in fire officials of the Tokyo Fire Department. The recruiting system is classified into expert and Grade 1, 2, and 3 and all grades are appointed as a fire fighter. According to the competence requirement system, while in office, fire officials who have a certain qualification defined in the recruiting system can change their recruiting classification according to their ability such as Grade $3{\rightarrow}$Grade 2 or 1 or expert, Grade $2{\rightarrow}1$ or expert, or Grade $1{\rightarrow}$expert. The promotion system requires working hard, capability suitable to their grade, and careful verification. Also, a variety of on-site training and qualification systems are provided to reinforce professionalism of staffs and executives.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.13-20
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• 2013

Buildings in Korea have been getting higher recently and been being changed environmentally since the Korean fire standard was released in 1968. It should be established to make a appropriate correspondence of fire fighting against the those environmental changes. Most of all, fire water capacity which is basis of fire fighting service is a very significant factor. In this paper, the Korean fire water capacity and fire water duration were compared with China, Japan and the United states. Furthermore, fire water capacity, fire water duration, flow rate were compared by hazard classification, occupant use, number of floor and area with water based fire suppression system. This study has been surveyed to show what are difference, similarity, advantage and disadvantage on fire water capacity in the Korean standard comparing with neighboring countries like China, Japan as well as the United states. This study could be found what level the Korean fire water capacity is. So it suggests about more developed standard on fire water capacity with the result of analysis and comparison.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.657-669
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• 2020

This study investigates the fire resistance characteristics of reactive powder concrete according to changes in the cement content per unit area, mixing ratio of metakaolin (MK), and content of polypropylene fiber. A fire test was conducted, and the resulting residual strength characteristics were investigated through flexural and compressive strength measurements, as well as condition rating classification based on visual evaluation. MK effectively reduced the initial high content of calcium hydroxide, thereby reducing the water vapor pressure generated during pyrolysis and slowing spalling. Furthermore, the pore structure and loose tissue were effective for relieving the water vapor pressure in the event of a fire.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.111-114
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• 2011

건축물은 화재시 그 피해를 최소화하기 위해서 주요 구조부를 일정 수준의 내화구조로 시공되어야 한다. 현재 국내에서는 건축물 주요 구조부의 내화성능을 인정한 법정 내화구조를 규정하고 있으나 외국에 비하여 내화성능 및 구조의 구분없이 일률적으로 3시간의 내화성능을 규정하고 있으며, 이 경우도 규정된 후 상당한 시일이 경과되어 최근의 재료 및 공법 등을 적절히 수용하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 이에 따라 현재 건축물 세부구조, 부위별로 내화성능을 세분화하여 규정할 필요가 있으며. 이를 위해 내화구조의 시험 자료를 근거로 한 경제적, 효율적 제도개선이 요구된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 국내의 법정내화구조로 규정된 벽체 구조를 대상으로 내화성능을 평가하여 각 구조별로 법정내화구조를 세분화한 기초자료를 제시하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.604-609
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• 2003

The fire precautions regulation for Rolling stock in England, France and America concentrate on ensuring of safety in respect of material choosing method and consideration of design. In order to guarantee fire safety in Korean Rolling stocks, it is necessary to establish the fire precautions regulation at the two respects. Korean Standard of product classifies only incombustibility or not. It is not sufficient to classify various materials by testing method for incombustibility of material. Korean Standard to be reserved should be able to cover the smoke density test for small size and classification of the detail grade of material against the reaction to fire

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.685-689
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• 2023

The proposed system in the study aims to detect forest fires in real-time stream data received from the drone-camera. Recently, the number of wildfires has been increasing, and also the large scaled wildfires are frequent more and more. In order to prevent forest fire damage, many experiments using the drone camera and vision analysis are actively conducted, however there were many challenges, such as network speed, pre-processing, and model performance, to detect forest fires from real-time streaming data of the flying drone. Therefore, this study applied image data processing works to capture five good image frames for vision analysis from whole streaming data and then developed the object detection model based on YOLO_v2. As the result, the classification model performance of forest fire images reached upto 93% of accuracy, and the field test for the model verification detected the forest fire with about 70% accuracy.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.531-539
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• 2019

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present the commodity classification method of domestic rack-type warehouse for sprinkler system design. Method: On-site surveys and classification criteria of the NFPA, FMDS, EN and Japan were analysed and ISO 12949 test were carried out with proposed each classification commodity. Result: Based on a heat of combustion, a classification method for extra high, high, medium and low are proposed. Conclusion: Sprinkler design criteria to secure the maximum extinguishing strength for each class of commodity need to be applied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2008

Korean city had been rapid developed through high industrialization and rapid economic growth after the 1970's. The city development process was guaranteed the fulfillment of city function through the city expansion based on New Towns and satellite cities rather than the reformation of existing city. This city expansion caused by degrading of city, being backward and producing many problems. To solve this problems, it was considered the rehabilitation of retarded function with rejuvenation such as a special law accelerating urban renaissance and reorganization project. Also a fire protection performance did not satisfied the required conditions of modern FPP system, such as the function deterioration of building facilities, the technological development with FPP facilities, changed fire laws and building occupancy for social needs. Insufficiency of requirements depreciated the building value and intimidated a safety of residents. To solve this problem, the improvement of FPP was essentially required and also strongly recommended an analysis and a comparative study between the required FPP of existing building and it improving effective FPP. Therefore, purpose of this study is that establish the basic data to construct a system to analyze and compare the building FPP.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.173-180
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• 2009

As cities become recently more crowded, various and enlarged, it is required a cutting-edge technology for fire industry. According to this, a transition is attempted from production intensive industry toward knowledge based industry. At this point, in order to develop fire industry into knowledge based high value industry, industry innovation capability is required and it heavily depends on human resource competitiveness. Accordingly, in this study is aimed to look the status of domestic fire industry personnel training by classifying the fire industry manpower by field skill personnel, high technology personnel, and professional research personnel and to suggest problems with personnel training followed by each classification and how to improve them.

• Journal of architectural history
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.35-45
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• 2023

Bongsu(Beacon Fire Station) is a facility that sends signals with fire and smoke and has been used in Korea since the Three Kingdoms period. This facility was installed to know the north and south crises. This trend continues until the Joseon Dynasty, and it has been somewhat completed in the 17th century. In previous studies, beacon fire was identified mainly from the border area to Hanyang. Based on this, it was classified into Gyeongbongsu, Yeonbyeonbongsu, and Naejibongsu. However, it is difficult to define the characteristics of beacon fire in coastal areas only with this classification. In the case of beacon fire in island areas, there was a tendency to value communication connection within the region rather than connection with the capital. As a case analysis for this, an academic review was conducted with the cases of Ganghwa Island and Jeju Island. As a result, it was confirmed that the role and character of the beacon vary depending on the defense system and the physical distance from the land, even if it has the topographical commonality of the same island.