• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.6-14
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• 2018

This study was carried out with respect to the heat release rate (HRR) properties of building wood. Heat release characteristics were measured using a cone calorimeter (ISO 5660-1) with four kinds of wood. The time to ignition measured after the combustion in $25kW/m^2$ external heat flux was 35 to 55 s. Time to ignition of both lauan and red pine was marked with the most delayed value in each of 54 s, 55 s. The maximum heat release rate ($HRR_{peak}$) was $156.87{\sim}235.1kW/m^2$, and the risk of early fire was highest in spruce. Total heat release of red pine was obtained in the highest value with $114.2MJ/m^2$. The mean effective heat of combustion of Japanese cedar was 19.1 MJ/kg and the highest among the samples. Fire risk of wood by FPI was orderly increased from lauan ($0.2468s{\cdot}m^2/kW$), red pine ($0.2339s{\cdot}m^2/kW$), spruce ($0.2308s{\cdot}m^2/kW$) to Japanese cedar ($0.2231s{\cdot}m^2/kW$). Fire risk of wood by FGI get increased from lauan ($0.5088kW/m^2{\cdot}s$), red pine ($0.5111kW/m^2{\cdot}s$), Japanese cedar ($2.8522kW/m^2{\cdot}s$) to spruce ($3.0662kW/m^2{\cdot}s$). Therefore, the risk of fire on the heat release characteristics of woods were found that spruce and Japanese cedar showed the high value compared with the other specimens.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.57-62
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• 2016

This study evaluated the risk of forest fires due to climate change in Jeju using the VESTAP. The study primarily aimed at assessing the risks posed to Jeju city and Seogwipo city, and uses actual and projected date from the period of 2000's to 2040's based on RCP 8.5 scenario. Forest fire vulnerability throughout Jeju-do was determined through the standardization of vulnerability index. The highest vulnerability was determined for the towns of Chuja-myeon, Udo-myeon, two downtown areas in Jeju city, Daejeong-eup, and five downtown areas in Seogwipo city, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.44-52
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• 2014

Small petrol stations have great potential for a wide distribution in metropolitan area in which the land value possesses primary installation cost of the facility. The objective of the present study is to propose appropriate facility regulations of small petrol stations in Korea that can be popularly installed in the future in terms of securing safety in addition to serviceability. The hazard analysis and damage prediction from the possible fire and explosion accidents were performed using a software, PHAST v.6.5. As essential components of the facility regulations proposed in this study, the regulations about the refueling lot, maximum capacity of underground tank, location of fixed refueling facilities, height of firewall for small petrol stations were subsequently compared with those for regular-sized petrol stations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.258-261
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• 2011

본 연구는 일본의 도시화재 위험성 평가방법 중 도시방재 실무 핸드북의 재해위험도 판정을 사용하여 우리나라 북촌한옥마을의 가회동 31번지일대 및 11번지일대를 대상으로 도시화재위험성 평가를 수행한 것으로서, 그 결과 A B구역에서는 도로폐색과 피난곤란으로 도시화재위험성이 높은 것으로 나타났으며, C D구역에서는 목방건폐율 불연영역율 제외한 부분에서 낮은 위험도를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.48-52
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• 2010

최근 우리나라는 건축물화재가 지속적으로 증가하고 있으며 지진으로 인한 화재 위험성 또한 증가하고 있다. 이러한 건축물화재는 화재경계지구 등 화재에 취약한 도심지에서 발생 시 대규모 시가지 화재로 확대될 위험성이 있다. 하지만 현재 이에 대한 위험성 평가 및 대응책에 관한 연구는 미비한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 일본의 도시화재 위험성 평가기법의 분석 및 적용성 검토를 통해 우리나라의 도시화재 위험성 평가기법구축을 위한 기초자료로 활용하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.127-130
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• 2010

최근 우리나라는 건축물 화재의 지속적인 증가 및 지진으로 인한 화재위험성의 증가로 대규모 도시화재의 발생가능성이 증가하고 있다. 하지만 현재 이에 대한 위험성 평가 및 대응책이 공학적인 접근이 아닌 단순한 통계에 의존하고 있는 현실이다. 본 연구에서는 도시화재 시뮬레이션을 이용해 도시화재 위험성을 평가하여 향후 우리나라 도시화재 위험성 구축을 위한 자료로 활용하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2020.11a
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• pp.119-120
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• 2020

In order to establish an evaluation method that can quantitatively evaluate the fire safety of existing buildings in Korea, a stochastic approach is needed to consider the extent of damage in the event of actual fire, along with the operation and installation of facilities. Accordingly, as a basic study for the establishment of fire safety assessment methods for buildings, this study aims to analyze the results of safety inspection and the degree of damage caused by the operation of fire doors and fire shutters in order to derive the reliability of fire doors and fire shutters. As a result, the results of inspection of fire shutters and fire doors and the results of operation using fire statisticians are as follows. As a result of the inspection, the positive rate of fire doors was about 82% and 98% of normal operation was derived from the fire investigation.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.551-564
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• 2021

The use of clean energy based on the hydrogen economy is increasing rapidly due to the greenhouse gas reduction policies and the increase in the need for hydrogen. Currently, South Korea government have been considering a plan to construct hydrogen refueling stations at expressway service area for the purpose of supplying hydrogen vehicles. In the case of a hydrogen refueling stations, a quantitative risk assessment (QRA) must be performed because it includs and uses a high pressurized hydrogen storage tank. In this study, QRA was conducted using societal risk and F-N curve by the consequence assessment (CA) of jet fire and explosion according to the population density, capacity of the high pressurized hydrogen storage tank and frequency assessment (FA) data to the general hydrogen refueling stations systems in expressway service area. In the cases of jet with a leak diameter of 7.16 mm, regardless of expressway service area location, the societal risk was over 1E-04 that was acceptable for as Low As reasonably practicable (ALARP) region (workforce), but unacceptable for ALARP region (public). In the cases of gas explosion, all expressway service area satisfy ALARP region. In the case of the population density is over 0.0727, QRA for constructing the hydrogen refueling stations, must be conducted.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.63-68
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• 2018

In this study, to recognize the limitations and problems of fire safety in existing deteriorated buildings in Korea, and to analyze the fire case of Jongno Gooshiwon, the fire life safety assessment was performed and analyzed through fire egress simulation and analyzed the domestic and foreign related codes and regulations. In order to secure the fire safety of existing deteriorated buildings, it is necessary to adopt the systematic introduction and application of fire safety performance evaluation of buildings based on quantitative and objective indicated method for performance maintenance and management for fire life safety.

• Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.15-21
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• 2016

According to the disaster statistics issued by the Ministry of Public Safety and Security, traffic accidents, fire, collapses and others are classified into twenty-three (23) categories. In the past, disasters were mainly caused by the influence of nature, such as typhoon or drought. On the other hand, as society has become city-centered, social disasters' types, frequencies and scales are becoming more diversified and ever-increasing. However, there are no specific criteria and assessment methods that can measure degrees of social disasters-related risks objectively. Therefore, this study targeted traffic accidents, fire and collapses from major social disasters, utilized data that are related to occurrence rate, scale of casualties and scale of property loss in past eight years, and calculated the disaster risk index using the distance (Euclidean distance) between two points on the 3D spatial coordinates, in order to make the objective assessment by social disaster type possible. These results will enable the objective evaluation of risk index of major social disaster to be used as the foundational data when building the national disaster management system.