Safety and Security Engineering: III

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