Safety and Security Engineering: v. 2

Section 1: Risk analysis, assessment and management Optimization of risk criteria for road tunnels; Economic analysis of safety risks in construction; The risk analysis of pseudolite and satellite navigation system; Proposal of a model for chemical risk preliminary assessment; Information asset modelling for risk analysis; Frequency distributions of storm surge for coastal damage prevention at Marseilles; The influence of mylonitic and cataclastic rocks in evaluation of the potential for debris and hyper concentrated flows; Protection systems against debris flows; Aspects of risk assessment in land use planning: the case study of Tartu Section 2: Planning and strategy Major hazard accident risk and land planning - Italian case studies: difficulties in satisfying law requirements and application to existing overexploited areas; International security after the cold war: utilization of the network technique to prioritize world threats; Patterns and rates of crime evolution in Mexico Section 3: Modelling and theoretical studies Risk analysis and acceptability criteria; Improving HVAC system performance: towards the design of sustainable and immune buildings; Quantum computing and security of information systems; Strategies for mitigation of progressive collapse of corner panels in reinforced concrete buildings; The flexibility of steel hollow tubular sections subjected to thermal and mechanical loads; Computing system for computer analysis of monitoring data and simulation of emergencies of natural and technogenic character Section 4: Fire prevention and protection The European project UpTun: results of four years of research to improve the level of fire safety in existing tunnels; OSIRIS: a European project using a High Altitude Platform for forest fire monitoring; Movable fire load survey for old residential highrise buildings in Hong Kong; The introduction of a USN-based Fire Protection Model: regarding the Seomun Traditional Market in Daegu, Korea; Temperature evaluation in steel fire protected elements with intumescent coating 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 environment protection, PRA(R) (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 Center; 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 September 11: a neural network analysis; Vehicle crash test against a lighting pole: experimental analysis and numerical simulation; Assessment model of debris flow hazard along the Tianshan Highway; State-of-the-practice and issues surrounding centerline rumble strips; Finite element modeling of impact strength of laser welds for automotive applications; Technologies to support the railway circulation in emergency conditions; Selected method of artificial intelligence in modelling safe movement of ships; The application of navigational risk analysis methods for designing pilot navigational systems; The risk assessment of ships manoeuvring on the waterways based on generalised simulation data; Development of color flexible pavement applicable to elementary school zone Section 8: Public safety The access control system of the Vatican City State; Towards a systemic approach to public safety; SERKET: an open software platform for preventive security in public crowded places and for large events; Security and safety assessment for cultural heritage: enhancing security profiles by wireless video-surveillance Section 9: Emergency and disaster prevention, control, management and recovery Pandemic flu: current threat and development of a preparedness framework; Realizing and testing a safety registration system to monitor workplace attendances; 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 simulation of human movements during emergency evacuations of facilities; Implementation of eWAR system in the neutralization of selected chemicals in building ventilation systems; Chemical industrial areas and their dynamic danger behaviour