Integrated Safety and Security Management to Tackle Domino Effects

Domino effects may be induced by both intentional and unintentional threats. To deal with possible intentional and unintentional domino effects, this chapter develops an integrated safety and security management framework. First, safety and security management principles are introduced to show the similarities and differences between safety...

An Economic Approach for Domino Effect Management

In light of possible severe consequences of unintentional and intentional domino effects, an integrated domino effect management framework was introduced in Chap. 5 to prevent and mitigate domino effect risk. In this chapter, an economic approach based on safety economics is developed to obtain the optimal protection strategy. First, we...

Risk Assessment of Coupled Hazardous Scenarios

In a coupled domino effect, hazardous scenarios such as toxic release, VCE, and fire can simultaneously or sequentially occur. Chapters 2 and 3 only consider domino effects that are caused by fire or VCE. Therefore, this study develops a dynamic method called “Dynamic Graph Monte Carlo” (DGMC) to model the evolution of coupled domino effects and...

Dynamic Assessment of VCE-Induced Domino Effects

Vapor cloud explosion (VCE) accidents such as the Jaipur explosion in 2005 manifest that VCEs may lead to unpredicted overpressures, resulting in catastrophic domino effects. Many attempts have been made to assess VCEs and the subsequent domino effects in the process and chemical industry, whereas little attention has been paid to the spatial...

A Resilience-Based Approach for the Prevention and Mitigation of Domino Effects

An accident within a chemical plant may trigger escalation effects, leading to a catastrophic degradation of operating performance. Due to possible severe consequences of domino effects, safety and security measures are needed to prevent and mitigate domino effects in chemical industrial areas. However, safety and security measures may be...

A New Method to Quantitatively Characterize the Porosity of Fiber/Matrix Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) via Longitudinal Cross-Sections

The properties of the interfacial transition zone (ITZ) between microfiber and cement-based matrix are of primary significance for the overall behavior of strain hardening cementitious composites (SHCCs). However, due to the relatively small diameter of polymeric microfibers (e.g., PVA fiber), it is technically difficult to obtain...

Learning About the Adversary

The evolving nature of the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by cyber adversaries have made signature and template based methods of modeling adversary behavior almost infeasible. We are moving into an era of data-driven autonomous cyber defense agents that learn contextually meaningful adversary behaviors from observables. In this chapter...

Mapping Atlas of Shenzhen - Urban Villages

This publication is in response to the call of 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) (UABB) “Cities, Grow in Difference”, from the perspective of urbanism: the synthesis of factors that collectively determine the spatial use of the city. <br/>This atlas is based on master graduation theses of Delft University of Technology ...

On the Predictability of PS occurrence and location based on 3D Ray-tracing models

A semi-analytical thermal model of selective laser melting process

A computationally efficient process modelling approach for selective laser melting