Safety and security engineering II / editors, M. Guarascio, C.A. Brebbia, F. Garzia.

CONTENT

Section 1 : RISK ANALYSIS, ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Optimization of risk criteria for road tunnels
Economic analysis of safety risks in construction
Proposal of a model for chemical risk preliminary assessment
Information modelling for risk analysis

Section 2. Planning and strategy
Major hazard accidents risk and land planning
International security after the cold war: utilization of the network
Patterns and rates of crime evolution in mexico
etc

Section 3: Modelling and theoretical studies
Risk analysis and acceptability criteria
Improving HVAC system performance: towards design of sustainable and immune buildings
Quantum computing and security of information systems
The flexibility of steel hollow tubular sections subjected to thermal and mechanical loads
etc

Section 4: Fire prevention and protection
The European project uptime: results of four years research to improve the level of fire safety in existing tunnels
Osiris: a European project using a high altitude platform for forest
Movable fire load survey for old residential highrise buildings in Honkong
etc

Section 5: Environmental protection
Environmental protection by a framework code for risk analysis
Heavy metals concentration in selected vegetables grown in Dohuk City, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Section 6: Industrial cases
Risk Analysis and Environmental protection, PRA (pollution reduction analysis) as an instrument of application of IPPC
Building failure in south Tel Aviv: case study
Safe remaining lifetime assessment of power plant steam boilers
Occupational safety at the Nestle Research Centre
Autonomous exploration for search and rescue robots

Section 7 Transportation problems
Road tunnel safety rules in Italy: the tunnel country
A distributed information system prototype to detect and monitor the Hazardous material transport on the road in the territory of Nice-Imperia-Ventimiglia
Airport level of service perceptions before and after September11: a neural network analysis
etc

Section 8. Public safety
The access control system of the Vatican City State
Towards a systemic approach to public safety
etc
Section 9: Emergency and disaster prevention, control, management and recovery
Pandemic flu: current threat and development of a preparedness framework
Realization and testing a safety registration system to monitor workplace
The elaboration of environmental sensitivity indices (ESI) maps of the marine protected area of Baia

Section 10: Terrorism prevention and protection
Integrated anti-terrorism physics-based modelling part 1: threats, loads and structural response
Integrated anti-terrorism physics -based modelling part 2: understanding injuries caused by terrorist attacks in an urban environment
Integrated anti-terrorism physics-based modelling part 3: agent-based simulationof human movements during emergency evacuations of facilities
etc.

Includes Author Index: p. 559-560