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The Proposition of Domestic Sprinklers Installation Standard and the Fire Services Act (국내 스프링클러 설치기준과 소방관련 법에 관한 고찰)

  • Kim, Yong-Moon;Lee, Young-Jai
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2014
  • Recently, many accidents occur frequently because sprinklers aren't installed or don't work right when there are outbreak of fire in houses and aggregate buildings. Therefore, they can result in damage for humans and loss of property. Sprinklers are the most appropriate which can extinguish buildings' fire in the initial stages. Through lack of legal system, in domestic cases, sprinklers cannot operate their inherent performance. Domestic standard simply classifies installation objects according to types of business and forms of buildings, also divides into uses and floors of buildings. Especially it only regulates that sprinklers must be installed every floors in particular fire buildings that have more than eleven floors. While it doesn't need to install sprinklers below ten floors, so we are threatened the safety. In this study, we derived causes and implications by analyzing concepts of sprinklers facilities, installation standards in domestic and foreign legal system, and recent cases that expanded damages in fire accidents because of weak point of installation and control standards. In domestic cases, as a result, government has to provide an institutional strategy and law that regulate duty to install sprinklers to all aggregate buildings regardless of floors in terms of new buildings. Also, if someone who has existing buildings wanted to install them, government would guarantee subsidy to encourage installation. In addition, government supervises fire-fighting activities when there are fire by compensating standards about regular inspection by a qualified technician, operation and maintenance of sprinklers as well as reinforcement of administrative criteria.

Awareness on middle and high school teachers for fire safety education (소방안전교육에 대한 중·고등학교 교사들의 인식)

  • Hong, Young-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.586-593
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of fire safety education in middle and high school teachers. The results of this study provide basic data necessary for future school safety education. The research was carried out using a questionnaire given to 317 school teachers. The frequency of the questionnaire was calculated from frequency analysis using SPSS version 19.0. A chi-square test was conducted to verify the analyzed questionnaire data. Cronbach's alpha for fire safety awareness in the respondents is 0.845, which is very reliable. According to the results of the survey, fire safety education currently conducted in schools is aimed at having a safe lifestyle and respect for life. The training is conducted once every six months, on average, and training time is 30 to 45 minutes. Fire safety education in schools is conducted in the form of experience-oriented education in cooperation with fire-related organizations following the plan of the school. Educational texts are used and utilized through the Internet and in related publications. Under the present circumstances, it is necessary to secure sufficient space to run an experience-related education program and to actively participate in the students' fire safety education at the school.

Study on the Fire Risk Prediction Assessment due to Deterioration contact of combustible cables in Underground Common Utility Tunnels (지하공동구내 가연성케이블의 열화접촉으로 인한 화재위험성 예측평가)

  • Ko, Jaesun
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.135-147
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    • 2015
  • Recent underground common utility tunnels are underground facilities for jointly accommodating more than 2 kinds of air-conditioning and heating facilities, vacuum dust collector, information processing cables as well as electricity, telecommunications, waterworks, city gas, sewerage system required when citizens live their daily lives and facilities responsible for the central function of the country but it is difficult to cope with fire accidents quickly and hard to enter into common utility tunnels to extinguish a fire due to toxic gases and smoke generated when various cables are burnt. Thus, in the event of a fire, not only the nerve center of the country is paralyzed such as significant property damage and loss of communication etc. but citizen inconveniences are caused. Therefore, noticing that most fires break out by a short circuit due to electrical works and degradation contact due to combustible cables as the main causes of fires in domestic and foreign common utility tunnels fire cases that have occurred so far, the purpose of this paper is to scientifically analyze the behavior of a fire by producing the model of actual common utility tunnels and reproducing the fire. A fire experiment was conducted in a state that line type fixed temperature detector, fire door, connection deluge set and ventilation equipment are installed in underground common utility tunnels and transmission power distribution cables are coated with fire proof paints in a certain section and heating pipes are fire proof covered. As a result, in the case of Type II, the maximum temperature was measured as $932^{\circ}C$ and line type fixed temperature detector displayed the fire location exactly in the receiver at a constant temperature. And transmission power distribution cables painted with fire proof paints in a certain section, the case of Type III, were found not to be fire resistant and fire proof covered heating pipes to be fire resistant for about 30 minutes. Also, fire simulation was carried out by entering fire load during a real fire test and as a result, the maximum temperature is $943^{\circ}C$, almost identical with $932^{\circ}C$ during a real fire test. Therefore, it is considered that fire behaviour can be predicted by conducting fire simulation only with common utility tunnels fire load and result values of heat release rate, height of the smoke layer, concentration of O2, CO, CO2 etc. obtained by simulation are determined to be applied as the values during a real fire experiment. In the future, it is expected that more reliable information on domestic underground common utility tunnels fire accidents can be provided and it will contribute to construction and maintenance repair effectively and systematically by analyzing and accumulating experimental data on domestic underground common utility tunnels fire accidents built in this study and fire cases continuously every year and complementing laws and regulations and administration manuals etc.

The use of network theory to model disparate ship design information

  • Rigterink, Douglas;Piks, Rebecca;Singer, David J.
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.484-495
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    • 2014
  • This paper introduces the use of network theory to model and analyze disparate ship design information. This work will focus on a ship's distributed systems and their intra- and intersystem structures and interactions. The three system to be analyzed are: a passageway system, an electrical system, and a fire fighting system. These systems will be analyzed individually using common network metrics to glean information regarding their structures and attributes. The systems will also be subjected to community detection algorithms both separately and as a multiplex network to compare their similarities, differences, and interactions. Network theory will be shown to be useful in the early design stage due to its simplicity and ability to model any shipboard system.

The Effect of Nozzle's Location & Injection Angle on the Characteristics of Air Flow and $CO_2$ Extinguishant Transfer (노즐 위치 및 분사각이 공기유동 및 $CO_2$ 소화제 전달특성에 미치는 영향)

  • 박찬수
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.472-484
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    • 2002
  • To analyze the characteristics of air flow and $CO_2$ extinguishant transfer when extinguishant is injected into a closed space similar to marine engine room, a numerical simulation on a space was performed. Flow fields and $CO_2$ concentration fields are calculated according with the variation of the location & injection angle of nozzles. The results of simulation showed that the pattern of recirculation flow was affected greatly with the location & injection angle of nozzles and such a recirculation flow accelerated mass transfer of $CO_2$ and greatly affected the diffusion process of $CO_2$ extinguishant. It is considered that this result of this study can be useful to designing the arrangement of nozzles for the $CO_2$ fire fighting equipments in a marine engine room.

The analysis of field condition for fire-fighting equipments in entertainment places (유흥장의 방재설비 관련 실태분석)

  • Yi, Geon-Ho;Kim, Gi-Hyun;Kim, Chong-Min;Bang, Sun-Bae;Kim, Han-Sang;Bae, Seok-Myung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.281-285
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    • 2004
  • 국민의 생활수준 향상에 따른 서비스산업의 발달로 화재위험 건물로 분류되는 나이트클럽과 같은 유흥장은 전국적으로 늘어나고 있는 추세이며, 이들 시설의 이용객수도 점점 증가하고 있다. 또한 규모가 대형화되고 화려해짐에 따라 전기설비도 복잡하고 다양해지고 있다. 특히 한정된 장소에 수많은 전기설비의 설치로 전선 및 케이블이 집중되어 시공되는 유흥장의 특성상 화재의 위험으로부터 항상 노출되어 있으며 다중이 이용하는 시설로써 화재 발생시 대형 참사가 일어날 가능성이 상존하고 있다. 그러나 화재시 인명이나 재산 피해를 최소한으로 줄이기 위한 방재설비에 대한 인식은 상대적으로 부족한 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 유흥장 방재설비에 대한 관련법이나 규정을 소개하고 유흥장의 현장실태조사를 통한 문제점을 파악하여 유흥장 방재설비의 설계 시공 및 유지관리에 대한 개선 방안을 제공하고자 한다.

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Quantitative Analysis on Chemisorption of NaDDTC as Organic Compound containing Sulfur for Cu-Ni Alloy (황을 포함한 유기화합물인 NaDDTC의 CuNi합금에 대한 화학적 흡착에 관한 정량적 분석)

  • Jung, Gilbong;Kim, Dongyung;Jang, Yohan
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.548-557
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    • 2015
  • This paper is results on Chemisorption of organic compound for the sea water fire fighting line of naval vessels. The quantitative analysis of Chemisorption has been investigated in seawater after immersion in 0.1 % of NaDDTC solutions for 43 hours. The morphology and topography were investigated by FE-SEM and AFM. The chemical elements were analyzed by SEM-EDS, XPS and the depth of chemical elements was measured by depth profiles. The effect of NaDDTC comes from Chemisorption between Copper and Sulfur of NaDDTC. As a result, test results showed that sulfur is helpful to protect a corrosion of seawater line.

A Position of a Anti-Air Weapon System for Fighting Ship's Self-Defence Effectiveness Enhancement (대공방어무기체계의 교전 효과도 향상을 위한 함상 배치 위치 분석)

  • Hwang, Soo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2006
  • Naval combat system is total management system integrating a ship and several weapon system functions. For the mission of a ship, naval combat system manages features and constraints of each weapon system. Proper treats of each weapon system's conditions guarantee effective performances of naval combat system. In this paper, the relationship of anti-air weapon system's on board position and self-defence effectiveness against anti-surface missiles is studied

Consideration of the Effect of Miscellaneous Factors on Frost Resistance of High Strength Concrete by Using the Factorial Design Method

  • Kwon Young-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.16 no.2 s.80
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    • pp.269-275
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    • 2004
  • Factorial design method is applied to investigate the effects of various factors simultaneously rather than to conduct a series of single-factor experiment. As the results, frost resistance of the concrete specimens, in both W/C ratio of 0.28 and 0.35, was highly affected by the type of coarse aggregate that is, andesite produced more durable concrete than the limestone. Durability factor of the specimens, with W/C ratio of 0.28, which were demolded after I day and transferred to the curing room was higher than those demolded after 2 days. This stated the efficiency of the high early curing in high strength concrete.

A Study on Functionality Evaluation of Profit Model for Remodeling of Apartment House (공동주택 리모델링을 위한 수익모델의 기능성 평가 연구)

  • An, Min-Jae;Pyo, Jin-Myung;Kim, Eui-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.5 no.2 s.16
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2005
  • This study analyzes remaining repair rate and applied repair rate with the presentation of profit model for the purpose of pursuing maximization of added value through remodeling of apartment house. Objects of remodeling and item applying the whole replacement of functionality evaluation items include exterior of building (3 items maintaining the current conditions, 8 items requiring the whole replacement), water supply/sanitary/gas/ventilation facilities (6 items maintaining the current conditions, 6 items requiring the whole replacement, electric/fire fighting/elevator facilities (8 items maintaining the current conditions, 20 items requiring the whole replacement) and heating/water heater facilities (2 items requiring the whole replacement).