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Safety & Security Engineering, due to its special nature, represents an interdisciplinary area of research and applications that brings together, in a systemic view, many disciplines of engineering, from the most traditional to the most advanced and novel. Safety &Security Engineering is characterized by a totally new approach since it first analyzes the hazard context not only by means of traditional tools but also by means of risk analysis techniques and then manage the above mentioned context through technical solutions, installations, systems, human resources and procedures to prevent and face incidental events, natural and voluntary, that could damage people or goods. This volume contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on the Safety and Security Engineering, covering the following topics: Infrastructure Protection; Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management; Public Safety and Security; Homeland Security; Surveillance Systems; Injury Prevention; Safety Culture; Emergency and Disaster Management; Modelling and Theoretical Studies; Earthquakes; Transportation Problems; Geotechnical Problems; Railway Safety.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Infrastructure protection Forensic study of structures for durability; Silver shield: a local government's approach to critical infrastructure protection; Smart high-performance materials for the multi-hazard protection of civil infrastructure; Aftermath of explosions in underground free space; Fire prevention and protection in civil buildings: the VALERIE project; Straw bale fire test on cement plaster mixes; Passive infrared detector used for infrastructure protection; Multi-sensor cognitive-based approach to critical infrastructure protection; Shock wave attenuation in aqueous foam; Photochemical oxidation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in aqueous phase Section 2: Risk analysis, assessment and management Safer by design: towards a conceptual assessment of safety; Proposal of a quali-quantitative assessment model for health and safety in small and medium enterprises; Audits related to safety management systems: Italian case studies; Combating crime in Gauteng, South Africa: a paradigm shift; Bayesian inference for predicting potential oil spill related ecological risk; Analysis of hazard areas associated with toxic cloud releases by pipelines; CO2 storage risk assessment: feasibility study of the systemic method MOSAR; Risk assessment from the oil waste disposal in deep wells Section 3: Public safety and security On the ideal concept of police for Mexico City; Design and evaluation of a detection system for uniform dressing/undressing using intra-body communication technology; A study on the assessment criteria for the safety grade of public use buildings and facilities; A generation method of test scenarios based on models: application to the ERTMS/ETCS system; Assessment of Lithuanian power supply security depending on nuclear energy Section 4: Homeland security Next generation of supervision systems for public security; Automatic surveillance systems against security threats; System robustness against misuse; A simulation model for bioterrorism preparedness in urban areas; Blast effects and protective structures: an interdisciplinary course for military engineers; The National Network-Centric System and its components in the age of information warfare Section 5: Surveillance systems Integrated access control system for ports; Operative ship monitoring system based on integrating AIS polls within synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery Section 6: Injury prevention Modelling physical injury to vehicle inhabitants - blast, fragment and acceleration environments resulting from the detonation of IEDs; Modelling physical injury to vehicle inhabitants - test methodologies and occupant survivability design requirements; Associated human factors for falls and fall-related injuries Section 7: Safety culture How to increase multi-plant collaboration within a chemical cluster and its impact on external domino effect cooperation initiatives; Is it safe?; Construction safety management accidents, laws and practices in Kuwait Section 8: Emergency and disaster management Design of mass notification systems; An innovative approach to forest fires detection and monitoring: the EU-FIRE project; A study on the appropriateness of the performance criteria of a smoke control system among the local fire safety standard for underground spaces Section 9: Modelling and theoretical studies Impact response and ballistic performances of graphitic foams; Charring rate determination of wood pine profiles submitted to high temperatures; Simulation-based design of vehicles exposed to blast threats for improved occupant survivability; Modelling highway safety with data from Chinese freeways; The stabilization of the excavation face of a shallow tunnel in difficult ground conditions Section 10: Earthquakes Tsunami disaster assessment in the southwestern Pacific countries due to giant earthquakes near Japan; Earthquake protection for high-speed rail traffic: risky business?; Earthquake damage detection in Tehran's water distribution system; Non-linear step by step seismic response and Push-over analysis for reinforced concrete buildings in Mexico City Section 11: Transportation problems Roundabouts for safer roads; The influence of higher speed limits on motorways on road safety and truck accidents; A decisional support system to quantify risk due to the transportation of dangerous substances; Risk analysis and reliability based design in tunnel fire safety; Trolley bus passengers' protection against accidental electrocution; Current safety situation at level crossings in Croatia and the future research Section 12: Geotechnical problems Geostatistics/reliability based risk analysis of the Vajont landslide; Wireless MEMS-based system for real-time geotechnical instrumentation of active slopes Section 13: Railway safety Safety of railway control systems: a new preliminary risk analysis approach; A behavioural model for the level crossing collision risk assessment; Sensor data collecting system for railway facilities; Dispatcher reliability analysis: SPICA-RAIL experiments


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845641931
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: WIT Press
  • Height: 230 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1845641930
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Width: 155 mm


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