• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.153-157
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• 2007

• International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.265-285
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• 2018

This paper presents a state-of-the-art review on the design, research and education aspects of fire safety engineering (FSE) with a particular concern on high-rise buildings. FSE finds its root after Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, followed by Great London Fire in 1666. The development of modern FSE is continuously driven by industry revolution, insurance community and government regulations. Now FSE has become a unique engineering discipline and is moving towards performance-based design since 1990s. The performance-based fire safety design (PBFSD) involves identification of fire safety goals, design objectives, establishment of performance criteria, and selection of proper solutions for fire safety. The determination of fire scenarios and design fires have now become major contents for PBFSD. To experience a rapid and positive evolution in design and research consistent with other engineering disciplines, it is important for fire safety engineering as a profession to set up a special educational system to deliver the next-generation fire safety engineers. High-rise buildings have their unique fire safety issues such as rapid fire and smoke spread, extended evacuation time, longer fire duration, mixed occupancies, etc., bringing more difficulties in ensuring life safety and protection of property and environment. A list of recommendations is proposed to improve the fire safety of high-rise buildings. In addition, some source information for specific knowledge and information on FSE is provided in Appendix.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.27-34
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• 2008

As for the performance related to a fire safety like fire resistance efficiency and evacuation safety etc. It is the ain of this study to investigate the comparative survey of expression methods for fire safety performance in Korea and Japan. The results of this study that there are so difference between Japan and Korea and suggests that the necessity for converting the fire risk calculated by an advanced technique into a simple expression.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.69-75
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• 1998

Overall view of fire science research in Korea is introduced by observing research papers published in the Journal of Korean Institute of Fire Science and Engineering, together with research interests and researchs undergoing at universities and research institutes. The role of Koran Institute of Fire Science and Engineering in promoting fire reseaches in Korea is described. In addition, research projects conducted Korean Institute of Fire Science and Engineering in cooperation with universities and research institutes are introduced.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.81-89
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• 2010

In general, fire resistance is determined through the building' uses and stories. But recently a fire engineering design that is done by the calculation of design fires from the fire cell and an evaluation of stabilities for structural behavior at fire condition have applied to almost of countries as a major alternative against a prescriptive fire design. To adopt and utilize the fire engineering design into Korea, at first, we evaluated structural stability of 21st stories steel residential building at fire condition through fire engineering design and secondly the fire protection cost was analyzed with fire engineering design method and the prescriptive one, respectively. No fire protection materials for satisfaction of building law at structural members such as columns and beams were needed and about 90 % of fire protection cost was saved.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.419-425
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.97-102
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.94-99
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.345-352
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• 1997

We could analyse the fire behavior using the developed software for fire safety assessment in a large space such as atrium. But Korean building law hasn't admitted the result of fire risk assessment in atrium. In the legislation fire resistant wall or shutter must be required between atrium and office rooms, That has obstructed development of building design and fire protection technique in Korea. From this point of view, we made scenarios of fire spread between atrium and office rooms, and then computed fire spread and fire phenomena using FASTLite and Breakl. In this study, we can decide that fire compartmentalization between atrium and office rooms doesn't require in Atrium building if the material and fire protection system were reliable. Consequently, Korean Fire Protection Regulations have to consider in direction of increasing freedom of building.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.332-337
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• 2007