Soft Target Protection

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Investigation into the Benifits of Post-Fire Corridor Smoke Clearance in the Early Stages of Fire Development in Very Tall Buildings

   • Aaron Mc Daid, Murali Ramaiyan, Wali Hasan, Tom Sagris

   Pages 1-13

3. Laser Induced Shockwave as Delaminator of Composite Material for Ballistic Protection at High Strain Rate

   • Luminita-Cristina Alil, Michel Arrigoni, Marcel Istrate, Alexander Kravcov, Jérémy Le Pavic, Gilles Tahan

   Pages 15-33

4. Dynamic Identification Techniques for the Vulnerability Analysis of Glass Soft Targets: On-site Vibration Experiments and Numerical Simulations on a Glazed Footbridge

   • Chiara Bedon

   Pages 35-48

5. Performance of TGU Windows under Explosive Loading

   • Piotr W. Sielicki, Chiara Bedon, Xihong Zhang

   Pages 49-59

6. Risk Management in the Protection of Soft Targets at Ukraine

   • Viacheslav Berezutskyi, Nataliia Berezutska, Viktoria Khalil

   Pages 61-75

7. Measures for Soft Target Protection Inspired in Other Blast Vulnerable Structures

   • Damjan Čekerevac, Constança Rigueiro, Eduardo Pereira

   Pages 77-88

8. Civil Danger and Risk of Crisis Situation – Risk of Fire from Safety and Protection of Population as Possible Soft Targets

   • Iveta Coneva

   Pages 89-97

9. Simulation of Selected Parameters of Internal Fire in Case of Soft Targets Protection

   • Romana Erdélyiová

   Pages 99-109

10. Methods of Protection of Soft Targets in Urban Area

    • Lucia Figuli, Vladimír Kavický

    Pages 111-120

11. Advanced Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Behavior Structural Materials Including Dynamic Conditions of Fracture for Needs of Designing Protective Structures

    • Michal Grazka, Leopold Kruszka, Wojciech Mocko, Maciej Klosak

    Pages 121-137

12. Building a Security Culture as a Tool for Soft Targets Protection

    • Ladislav Hofreiter, Martin Halaj, Richard Jankura

    Pages 139-147

13. Theoretical Basis of Soft Target Protection

    • Ladislav Hofreiter, Zuzana Kubíková

    Pages 149-160

14. Improving Safety of Soft Targets, Which Are Found Side by Side with Sewage Wells

    • Valentina Iurchenko, Elena Lebedeva

    Pages 161-167

15. Different Approaches of Numerical Simulation of Blast for Civil Engineering Applications

    • Matúš Ivančo, Lucia Figuli, Chiara Bedon

    Pages 169-181

16. Assessment of the Evacuation Capacity of a Crowd, Including People with Disabilities

    • Mykola Khvorost, Karyna Danova

    Pages 183-194

17. Designing Principles for High Energy Absorbing Materials

    • Tünde Anna Kovács, Zoltán Nyikes

    Pages 195-201

18. Protection of Individuals as Soft Targets in North African and Arabian Countries

    • Vít Krajíček, Zuzana Kubíková

    Pages 203-210

19. Experimental Analysis of Impact and Blast Resistance for Various Built Security Components

    • Leopold Kruszka, Ryszard Rekucki

    Pages 211-239

20. Assessing Security of Soft Targets Using Complex Systems Analysis Methods

    • Bohus Leitner, Maria Luskova

    Pages 241-255

This proceedings volume includes articles presented during the Advanced Research Workshop on Soft Target Protection.

The book presents important topics related to the protection of vulnerable objects and spaces, called Soft Targets. The chapters published in this book are thematically assigned to the blocks as follows: Theoretical aspect of soft target protection; Blast resistance of soft targets; Counter terrorism; Technical and technological solutions for soft target protection; Scheme and organizational measures; Blast protection and Forces for soft target protection.

In this book, the reader will find a wealth of information about the theoretical background for designing protection of soft targets, as well as the specifics of protecting objects in armed conflict areas.  New methods and procedures applicable to the soft target protection are described.

• Soft target protection
• Conditions of attack
• Protection against terrorist attacks
• Blast protection
• Counter terrorism
• crime prevention
• terrorism

• Department of Security Management, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

  Ladislav Hofreiter, Lucia Figuli, Zuzana Zvaková

• Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Kharkov, Ukraine

  Viacheslav Berezutskyi

Ladislav Hofreiter, professor in the field of National  and International Security. His work is focused on tasks of security science and security management theory. He worked at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy (Poland) and at the Faculty of Security Engineering of the University of Žilina (Slovakia). He is a member of Scientific Council  European Association of Security and a member of the Commission for Assessing the Qualifications of Security Specialists, EAS.

Viacheslav BEREZUTSKYI, Sc.D., Professor, head of Department of Labour and Environment Protection, National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnic Institute". He is a member of the Commission of the Ministry of Education of Civil Protection, Ukraine; Deputy Chairman of Scientific Council European Association for Security;  Head  of the Commission for Assessing the Qualifications of Security Specialists EAS.

 

Lucia Figuli, Ph.D. is a Deputy head of Department of Technical Sciences and Informatics of Faculty of Security Engineering at University of Žilina (Slovakia). She was a member of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme´s Independent Scientific Evaluation Group for the period 2016 – 2018. She deals in her research activities with the protection of strucrures and people again the effect of the blast wave from the explosions.

 

Zuzana Zvaková, Ph.D. is a lecturer at the Department of Security Management of Faculty of Security engineering at University of Žilina (Slovakia). Her research activity is focused on the issue of the effects of an explosion of IEDs on persons and objects, parameters and propagation of blast wave and on the area of security services.

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