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This book contains the proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference on safety and security engineering. Research and applications on the topic by necessity bring together many engineering disciplines, ranging from traditional to technologically advanced. The biennial conference, first held in 2005, brings together experts from various disciplines from around the world. The papers presented covers areas such as Risk analysis, assessment and management; Infrastructure protection; Natural disaster management; Public safety and security; Emergency and disaster management; Modelling and theoretical studies; This book contains the proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference on safety and security engineering. Research and applications on the topic by necessity bring together many engineering disciplines, ranging from traditional to technologically advanced. The biennial conference, first held in 2005, brings together experts from various disciplines from around the world.The papers presented cover areas such as: Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management; Human Factors; Incident Management; Infrastructure Protection; Construction Safety and Security; Traffic Safety and Security; Safety in the Design of Road Networks in Ordinary and Emergency Conditions; Modelling and Experiments; Modelling Studies; Soil and Food Contamination; Air Pollution Issues; Air Quality; Earthquake Issues.
Contents
Contents Section 1: Risk analysis, assessment and management A tool for intelligent budget allocation of prevention measures related to major accidents; General approach to risk optimisation of road bridges exposed to accidental situations; Conceptual design of a crime regulatory system for Mexico; Flood risk assessment and management: a case study in Rio de Janeiro; A new knowledge-based risk control method for risk sensitive devices; Risk assessment: workers operating in loading/unloading (shipping/receiving) areas; A unified framework for safety and security assessment in critical infrastructures; A model to facilitate the development of an appropriate risk assessment methodology and instrument for crowd safety at outdoor music festivals; Flood hazard: planning approach to risk mitigation; Evaluation of coefficients for an energy security indicators system; Unmanned aerial vehicle for post seismic and other hazard scenarios; Informing the population in case of extraordinary events by means of digital video broadcasting - terrestrial; Limits and opportunities of risk analysis application in railway systems;Nitrogen gas spillage in a confined space located in the Gran Sasso Underground Nuclear Physics Laboratory: an outstanding oxygen deficiency hazard case study; Risk management and its methodological support in the performance economy; Processing of large amounts of data on a credit scoring example using neural network technology; Toxic greens: a preliminary study on pesticide usage on golf courses in Northern Ireland and potential risks to golfers and the environment; Revision of town planning in the Pioverna basin by the use of a multidisciplinary study to identify flood-prone areas: Valsassina, Lombardy Region, Northern Italy Section 2: Human factors Stereoscopic displays for air traffic control: conflict judgement performance as a function of visualisation, task characteristics and expertise; A statistical look at gender and age differences as related to the injury crash type on low-volume roads; The analysis of unconscious action as a dangerous factor and the promotion of risk aversion action; Risk perception in emergency planning environments Section 3: Incident management Support system for the training of crisis management group members; Sustainable safety management: incident management as a cornerstone for a successful safety culture Section 4: Infrastructure protection Optical fiber sensors as the primary element in the protection of critical infrastructure especially in optoelectronic transmission lines; Multispectral solutions in surveillance systems: the need for data fusion; Multisensor system for the protection of a critical harbour infrastructure; Analyzing the impacts of explosions on dams and levees; Assessment of retaining levels of safety barriers; Anti-terrorism protection and protective design measures for hotels; Cost-effectiveness of protection measures to mitigate terrorist attacks on bridges and tunnels; A new blast-mitigation solution for building facade protection with a laminated polycarbonate based system; Concentration system for volatile compounds detection; Improved solutions for dangerous liquid containment Section 5: Construction safety and security Archaeological safety considerations on construction sites; Structural integrity assurance of casing pipes in the oil and gas industry; A world sea safety system using second generation WIG Section 6: Traffic safety and security Case study: driving safety culture in small enterprises - an industry-led initiative; Analyzing risk factors for highway theft in Mexico; Performance improvements for calculations of third party risk around airports; Security procedures and devices for road transportation of high consequence dangerous goods; Fatal crashes in GCC countries: comparative analysis with EU countries for three decades; Optimization methods for system track data securing using digital signatures; Analysis of pedestrian accidents using a geographical information system (GIS) in Konya city, Turkey; Joint efforts needed to prevent traffic accidents, injuries and fatalities Section 7: Safety in the design of road networks in ordinary and emergency conditions (Special session organised by A. Vitetta) Impacts of accidents involving shopping and restocking vehicles on an urban road network; Risk occurrence measures for dangerous goods transport on a road network; A day-to-day experiment on an urban road network in ordinary and emergency scenarios; A before - after analysis for the design problem on an urban road network; Planning instruments in Italy and the UK: private and public spaces for emergency events in urban areas Section 8: Modelling and experiments Fire safety in perforated wooden slabs: a numerical approach; Investigation of the safety of seawalls against scouring; Effect of temperature on the concentration explosion limits of combustible liquids; Understanding ignition of natural fuels by heated particles; Experimental evaluation of floor slab contribution in mitigating progressive collapse of steel structures; Estimate modelling for assessing the safety performance of occupant restraint systems Section 9: Modelling studies Automatic human signature recognition system; Learning from failures through feedback to design; Assessment of safety evacuation of persons in the design of assembly areas Section 10: Soil and food contamination Analysis of natural radioactivity and artificial radionuclides in soil samples in the Najran region of Saudi Arabia; Acetanilide herbicide degradation using indigenous soil microorganisms; Mitigation of pathogens and marine biotoxins contamination in shellfish Section 11: Air pollution issues Occupational health risk assessment of benzene and toluene at a landfill site in Johannesburg, South Africa; Prevalence of respiratory symptoms associated with outdoor and indoor air pollution in Bogota 2012; Influence of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on the function of human immune cells; Air quality in a hospital environment; Indoor air quality in a bus; Mathematical simulation of ammonia gas release in a complex urban terrain using CFD and a statistical approach Section 12: Air quality Volatile organic compounds in normal human exhaled breath: a long neglected pollutant source; Occupational exposure to PCDD/PCDF from industrial boilers at a whisky factory and vegetable oil factory in Samutsakorn Province, Thailand Section 13: Earthquake issues 3D motion capture application to seismic tests at ENEA Casaccia Research Center: 3DVision System and DySCo Virtual Lab; Seismic behavior of a precast hollow core wall under biaxial lateral cyclic loading; Experimental investigation on a non-seismic precast RC beam-column exterior joint under quasi-static lateral cyclic loading; Earthquake induced interaction between RC frame and steel frame structures; Improvement of the seismic retrofit performance of damaged reinforcement concrete piers using a fiber steel composite plate; Design and analysis of base isolated structures
