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A Study of Classification of Road Tunnel for Fire Safety (안전성 향상을 위한 도로터널 등급에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Ji-Oh;Rie, Dong-Ho;Shin, Hyun-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.20 no.3 s.71
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    • pp.112-119
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    • 2005
  • In road tunnel, in order to prevents an accident and minimize the damage of an accident in the case of fire, safety facilities and equipments are integral parts. The type and amount of safety facilities are based on tunnel type and length, traffic flow rate, etc. Therefore many countries use a tunnel classification system that categories tunnel into groups, and specifies the necessary emergency equipment for each group. In this study, for the purpose of classifying tunnel based on tunnel ist investigated the domestic and foreign standards and regulations for safety of road tunnel. As a results, we suggest the method of classification of tunnel by traffic performance, tunnel grade, the volume of traffic, fraction of HGV, rules or regulations for transports of dangerous good through tunnel.

방재뉴스 - 한국화재안전기준(KFS) 주요 내용 소개(6)

  • Son, Yeong-Jin
    • 방재와보험
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    • s.91
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    • pp.63-67
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    • 2001
  • KFS(Korea Fire Safety Standards)에서 규정하고 있는 내용 중 각 설비별 설치, 유지관리 및 화재예방 등에 필요한 사항으로서 중요사항을 발췌.요약한 것입니다. 보다 더 상세한 내용을 알고자 하시는 분들은 해당 KFS를 참고하시기 바랍니다.

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방재뉴스 - 한국화재안전기준(KFS) 주요 내용 소개(5)

  • Son, Yeong-Jin
    • 방재와보험
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    • s.90
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    • pp.58-61
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    • 2001
  • KFS(Korea Fire Safety Standards)에서 규정하고 있는 내용 중 각 설비별 설치, 유지관리 및 화재예방 등에 필요한 사항으로서 중요사항을 발췌.요약한 것입니다. 보다 더 상세한 내용을 알고자 하시는 분들은 해당 KFS를 참고하시기 바랍니다.

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Some Considerations for the Fire Safe Design of Tall Buildings

  • Cowlard, Adam;Bittern, Adam;Abecassis-Empis, Cecilia;Torero, Jose L.
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.63-77
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    • 2013
  • In any subject area related to the provision of safety, failure is typically the most effective mechanism for evoking rapid reform and an introspective assessment of the accepted operating methods and standards within a professional body. In the realm of tall buildings the most notable failures in history, those of the WTC towers, widely accepted as fire induced failures, have not to any significant extent affected the way they are designed with respect to fire safety. This is clearly reflected in the surge in numbers of Tall Buildings being constructed since 2001. The combination of the magnitude and time-scale of the WTC investigation coupled with the absence of meaningful guidance resulting from it strongly hints at the outdatedness of current fire engineering practice as a discipline in the context of such advanced infrastructure. This is further reflected in the continual shift from prescriptive to performance based design in many parts of the world demonstrating an ever growing acceptance that these buildings are beyond the realm of applicability of prescriptive guidance. In order for true performance based engineering to occur however, specific performance goals need to be established for these structures. This work seeks to highlight the critical elements of a fire safety strategy for tall buildings and thus attempt to highlight some specific global performance objectives. A survey of tall building fire investigations is conducted in order to assess the effectiveness of current designs in meeting these objectives, and the current state-of-the-art of fire safety design guidance for tall structures is also analysed on these terms. The correct definition of the design fire for open plan compartments is identified as the critical knowledge gap that must be addressed in order to achieve tall building performance objectives and to provide truly innovative, robust fire safety for these unique structures.

Study of Fire and Explosion Prevention of an Internal Floating Roof Tank (내부 부상형저장탱크(IFRT) 화재·폭발 예방대책에 관한 연구)

  • Koo, Chae-Chil;Choi, Jae-Wook
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2019
  • This study examined the safety of storage tanks by analyzing the causes of fire on outdoor storage tanks. The outdoor storage tank is a fixed device for the long-term storage of dangerous goods and consists of a tank body and accessories; the accessories consist of a vent system, breather valve, flame arrestor, etc. The flame arrestor is a necessary safety measure to prevent fire explosions on outdoor storage tanks. On the other hand, it has been suggested that the installation of a flame arrester is necessary to compare the domestic and international standards. In addition, the flame arrester should be installed in the existing outdoor storage tanks, to complement foreign standards because there are not enough domestic standards to verify the performance of the flame arrester.

Rolling Stock Fire Engineering aspect of System Engineering (System Engineering 측면에서 전동차 화재기술관리)

  • Chang, Jung-Hoon;Kang, Chan-Yong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.163-168
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    • 2005
  • In case of rolling stock, SEMS is generally applied in the advanced countries, but is start stage in our country. SEMS is defined the system engineering management system in order to achieve the optimized train performance among the several client requirements aspect of technical engineering management during the design life cycle. And the fire engineering activities in hong kong EMU project are introduced aspect of SEMS in this paper. The fire engineering at rolling stock in view of SEMS controls to apply the satisfied interior material by the fire safety standards (regulation of the commute urban subway safety guideline by the MOCT, BS 6853, NFPA 130, NF F 16-101) and to minimize the fire load in order that passengers egress safe from the fired rolling stock. The rolling stock in the advanced countries is designed to stand for 15-20 minutes in considering the rolling stock to be fired in tunnel. For passenger fire safety, the passenger evacuation provision and progress is set up.

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A Study on the Survey of Each Country's Standards to Prevent Flashover of Housing Building (주거시설의 플래시오버 방지를 위한 각국의 내장재 기준 조사에 관한 연구)

  • Hun, Ye-Rim;Kim, Yoon-Seong;Lee, Byeong-Heun;Jin, Seung-Heun;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.44-45
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    • 2021
  • In Korea, the risk of fire in buildings is increasing. Therefore, efforts are needed to reduce casualties and property damage. Accordingly, it is important to limit the flashover so that the fire inside the building does not expand to the outside. Flashover refers to the generation of upward airflow after the fire in the compartment, and when combustible gas accumulates in the upper part of the fire chamber and reaches about 500℃, explosive expansion combustion occurs inside the compartment. This can suppress flashover due to limitations on building interior materials. To this end, internal limitations are being implemented at home and abroad through standards related to internal materials. In this paper, we intend to secure basic data on domestic fire safety design by comparing domestic and foreign standards and reviewing the Japanese housing interior design manual.

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Study on the operating range of stand-alone sensor in consideration of the impacts of combustion products on residents (연소생성물이 거주자에 미치는 영향을 고려한 단독경보형감지기의 작동범위에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Hwa;Kim, Si-Kuk;Jee, Seung-Wook;Kim, Pil-Young;Lee, Chun-Ha
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.23-31
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    • 2012
  • Recent research on stand-alone focused on the improvement and development of functions for solving problems such as the limited operating time of stand-alone installed at dwelling and their low reliability caused by false alarms, but it is more urgent to study on the operating range of stand-alone sensor in consideration of the impacts of combustion products on residents because the primary goal of fire safety is minimizing casualties. This study purposed to propose the optimized operating range of stand-alone sensor in consideration of the impacts of combustion products on residents. For this purpose, we made a mathematical approach to the change of temperature over the lapse of time in compartment fires similar to house fires, and established the standards of the body's response against heat and smoke based on literature review. In addition, we surveyed domestic and foreign technological standards for stand-alone sensor, and converted them to standards for residents of the body's response against heat and smoke using mathematical model equations and analyzed them comparatively.

Analysis of Spatial Characteristics of Old Building Districts in Daegu to Evaluate Fire Risk Factors (화재위험요소의 도출을 위한 대구지역 노후건축지구의 공간특성분석)

  • Son, Byeung-Hun;Kang, Kyung-Ha;Ryu, Jung-Rim;Roh, Seung-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.202-203
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    • 2021
  • The proportion of old buildings over 30 years old increased from 29.0% in 2005 to 37.8% in 2019. These old buildings were created during the absence of building-related safety standards such as fire safety performance. In the process of use, illegal changes and extensions were made, making them more vulnerable to safety. In the 1st Basic Plan for Fire Safety Policy, among the 12-Key Tasks, one is to ensure the safety of residential living spaces. Fire safety investigations are being conducted to prevent large-scale disasters such as multi-use buildings, but no investigation has been conducted at the regional district level where small-scale old buildings are concentrated. Therefore, in order to derive fire risk factors in the old building district where old buildings are concentrated, the composition characteristics of the buildings were first analyzed.

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Classification of Fire Causes in Warehouses Using the TRIZ Technique and Analysis of Preventive Measures Accordingto 4M (TRIZ기법에 의한 물류창고의 화재원인 및 4M에 따른 예방대책 분석)

  • Han, Sang-Hun;Kong, Ha-Sung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.401-412
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzed the causes of warehouse fires using a creative problem-solving technique called TRIZ. It identified preventive measures by applying 4M. The results are as follows. First, this study examined the inconsistency among the causes of warehouse fires using TRIZ. Second, it analyzed human factors and fire prevention measures in warehouses such as safety standards for managers, and methods for the promotion of safety consciousness among workers, and for the reinforcement of construction technology for sandwich panel workers. Third, it identified the mechanical and facility factors and fire prevention measures in warehouses such as safety facilities, the expanded installation of safety devices, the adoption and development of fire suppression equipment, and the deployment of methods to improve the fire resistance of sandwich panels. Fourth, it presented working and environmental factors and fire prevention measures in warehouses such as the tightening of safety precautions and the supervision of working methods, and setting fire partitions both in loading places and based on performance-based design. Finally, it proposed managerial factors and fire prevention measures in warehouses such as specific targeting for firefighting with low fire hazards, reviewing the material quality regulations of non-combustible or higher for sandwich panels in the specific target of firefighting that cannot apply fire safety standards, installing sprinklers in cold storage, and mandating the installation of automated facilities with retroactive application regardless of the floor area in the warehouse with a sandwich panel structure.