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Resilience of chemical industrial areas through attenuation-based security
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This paperinvestigatesthepossibilityofattenuation-basedsecuritywithinchemicalindustrialareas. Representingchemicalindustrialareasasmathematicalnetworks,weprovebycase-studythatthe resilience todisasterofsuchareasmayfollowapower-lawdistribution.Furthermore,weexaminewhat happens tothenetworkwhenhighlyhazardousinstallationswouldbeintelligentlyprotectedagainst malicious acts:thenetworkdisintegratesintoseparatesmallernetworks.Hence,islandsareformedwith no escalationdangerinbetween.Weconcludethatitispossibletoprotectchemicalindustrialareasin such awaythattheyaremoreresilientagainstterrorism.
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English
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Reliability engineering and system safety. - Barking
Publication
Barking : 2014
ISSN
0951-8320
DOI
10.1016/J.RESS.2014.05.005
Volume/pages
131 (2014) , p. 94-101
ISI
000341466500009
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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