• 한국실내디자인학회논문집
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.79-87
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• 2009

Residential Buildings should provide high-quality, comfortable environments to support the activities of their occupants. The indoor environment of residential buildings, which includes thermal, lighting, acoustic, and indoor air quality, has a significant impact on health and quality of life. The comfortable living environment in residential buildings result from appropriately combining these environmental quality factors, and the performance of building systems must be compatible with the activities of the occupants. The objective of this research is to investigate and analyze the relationship between physical environmental conditions and occupant responses for improving environmental quality (EQ) in apartment buildings with four different building orientations (i.e. E, W, S, N) in two different seasons (i.e. winter and summer). The occupant survey was conducted in actual apartment buildings. The Physical environmental conditions in apartment buildings differed substantially depending on space, outdoor weather conditions and building orientations. Each space within the same apartment building had different environmental conditions. Combinations of unbalanced physical environmental conditions in apartment building decrease occupants' satisfactions and their perceptions of overall residential quality. Occupants' satisfaction and their responses to physical characteristics of their residential environment is related to thermal, lighting, acoustic, and indoor air conditions in their buildings. The result from this research will help designers and researchers to identify problems and develop solutions for improving environmental quality from the occupants' point of view.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.499-515
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• 2011

Low-frequency building vibration is known to induce symptoms of motion sickness in some occupants. This paper examines how the adoption of a theory of motion sickness, in conjunction with a dose-response model might inform the real-world problem of managing and designing standards for tall building motion sway. Building designers require an understanding of human responses to low-dosage motion that is not adequately considered by research into motion sickness. The traditional framework of Sensory Conflict Theory is contrasted with Postural Instability Theory. The most severe responses to motion (i.e., vomiting) are not experienced by occupants of wind-excited buildings. It is predicted that typical response sets to low-dosage motion (sleepiness and fatigue), which has not previously been measured in occupants of tall-buildings, are experienced by building occupants. These low-dose symptoms may either be masked from observation by the activity of occupants or misattributed to the demands of a typical working day. An investigation of the real-world relationship between building motion and the observation of low-dose motion sickness symptoms and a degradation of workplace performance would quantify these effects and reveal whether a greater focus on designing for occupant comfort is needed.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.769-776
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• 2006

A mathematical model is developed in this paper to define the interaction between the occupant and vehicle passenger compartment and to predict the occupant dynamic response during a sudden impulse load. Two different types of occupants are considered in this study, child and adult occupants. The occupants are considered as lumped masses connected to the child seat and vehicle's body masses by means of restraint systems. In addition, the occupant restraint characteristics of seat belt and airbag are represented by stiffness and damping elements. To obtain the dynamic response of the occupant, the equations of motion of the occupants during vehicle collisions are developed and analytically solved. The occupant's acceleration and relative displacement are used as injury criteria to interpret the results. It is demonstrated from the numerical simulations that the dynamic response and injury criteria are easily captured and analyzed. It is also shown that the mathematical models are flexible, useful in optimization studies and it can be used at initial design stage.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.11-19
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• 1989

In this study, the independent variables are the floor plan configulation. The dependent variables are the occupant's egress behavior, especially spatial movement pattern, and life - safety performance of building. Fire events were simulated on single story of office building. Simulation run for allowable secaping thime(180 seconds) arbitrarily selected, and involved 48 occupants. The major findings Pre as follows. 1) Computer simulation model suggested in this study can be used as the Preoccupancy evaluation method of the life-safety performance for architectural design based on prediction of occupants' egress behavior in the levels of validity and sensitivity, 2) Sucess or failure in occupants' escape is determined by decreasing walking speed caused by jamming at exits or over crowded corridor, and increasing route length caused by running about in confusion at each subdivision and corridor. 3) In floor plan configuration which safe areas located at the extreme ends of the corridor, cellular floor planning have to be avoided preventing jamming and running about in confusion at overcrowded corridor.

• 한국주거학회논문집
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2003

This study is to evaluate T-apartment housing located in Inchon by the occupants. The purpose of the study is extracting the design guideline to improve the physical environment in apartment housing from understanding and analyzing the residents'satisfaction and their needs. In this study, the strategy for environmental improvements is suggested to raise the occupants'overall satisfaction from finding the improvement priority. The results of this study are as follows: - The satisfaction level of the occupants is above the moderate level (3.31/3.00). - The construction quality is the 1 st factor in the improvement priority. - The characteristics of the occupants in this survey are that they are conservative in their present physical environment, but that they also need new trends in the unit plan.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.201-202
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• 2008

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2022

연구목적: 건축법에 따라 설치되는 피난계단 출입구의 최소 유효 폭(90cm) 기준이 해당 층을 사용하는 전체 재실자의 피난 시간과는 어떤 관계가 있는지 피난 관점에서 알아보고자 하였다. 연구방법: 출입구 폭의 변화에 따라 재실자의 피난 시간에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 피난 시뮬레이션(Pathfinder)을 통하여 알아보았다. 연구결과: 출입구의 유효 폭이 최소기준 90cm보다 커지면 커질수록 피난계단으로의 피난 시간이 단축되는 것을 알 수 있었고, 더불어 출입구의 너비가 일정 크기 이상 되면 피난 시간은 더는 단축되지 않는다는 사실도 알 수 있었다. 이는 해당 층 전체 재실자의 수에 따라 피난계단 출입구의 유효 너비를 적정하게 달리 적용할 수 있다는 방증(傍證)이기도 한 것이다. 결론: 앞으로는 재실자의 피난 안전성 확보를 위해 용도별 전체 수용인원을 고려한 피난 계단 출입구 유효 폭 기준이 필요할 것으로 판단된다. 더불어 연구 및 실험을 통해 용도별 수용인원에 따른 다양한 출입구 유효 폭 기준이 만들어진다면 재실자의 피난 효율성이 크게 증대될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국조리학회지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.57-72
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• 2006

It is a real situation that the meal service at silver towns such as the welfare facilities for the elderly is giving help in maintaining health, preventing diseases, and giving mental pleasure to the dwelling elderly people, thus the importance of meal service for housing occupants is being demanded together. This study is based on some inconvenient matters when using the meal-service facilities within the silver town targeting housing occupants at the silver town, aiming to examine which influence it can have upon the satisfaction with meal service in housing occupants. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to present a desirably developmental direction for the meal-service facilities, which can cope with diverse needs of housing occupants. To achieve the objectives of this study, it was analyzed by selecting research variables that were verified by the consideration of preceding studies.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.355-361
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• 2017

Indoor noise environment is an important factor when it comes to occupants comfort, especially in cafe. Results of the survey, 33.9% of occupants were feel unpleasant and sensitive about noise environment. Noise in cafe fluctuate depending on the finishing of both wall and ceiling, volume of the room, and the number of occupants in the room. Therefore, the noise meter device was used for measurement of various under conditions. Also, the subjective assessment of occupant noise was conducted through questionnaires. When the interior finish was exposed concrete, the maximum value of the noise measurement was 66.6 dB and the minimum value was 63 dB, respectively. Also, the result of subjective assessment of unpleasant noise were 5.43 and 4.96 point of 10 point of noise and echo, respectively. Otherwise, the interior finish was gypsum board, the maximum value of the noise measurement was 73.8 dB and the minimum value was 60.4 dB, respectively. Also, the result of subjective assessment of unpleasant noise were 3.88 and 3.95 point of 10 point of noise and echo, respectively. The results of the study showed that the noises and echoes in the cafes were lower than when did not.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2001

화재시 효과적인 피난이 중요하다고 하는 것은 인식 되어왔다. 그러나 피난안전을 위한 계획과 관련 규정은 최소한치 요구조건만을 충족하고 있다. 피난계획의 궁극적인 목적은 안전한 장소로 거주자를 신속하게 피난시키는 것이며, 본 연구에서는 고층 공동주택을 대상으로 첫째, 거주밀도 및 거주자 특성을 분석하고, 둘째 고층 공동주택 여러 평면의 피난성능을 분석하였다. 이 연구의 목적은 고층 공동주택 피난특성 파악하고 평면 및 법 규정의 비교분석을 통해 피난안전성능 향상을 위한 개선방안을 제한하는데 있다.