Part 0 – Introduction to the concept of di Homeland Security

• Introduction, notion of Homeland Security (HS),

• analysis of terrorist acts and sabotage (Samuel Byck, 9/11)

Part 1 - Threats from terrorist acts and natural disasters

• International terrorism and the evolution of natural disasters, elements of analysis and characterization of the phenomenon

• The development of US Patriot Act and its impact on the global flows of goods and people

• Organization of DHS and its structuring for lines of action

• The role of intelligence and coordination as a tool for prevention and protection

• Security strategies (anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism)

• Contingency Plans: A methodology to increase readiness to adverse events

• Chemical, bacteriological, radioactive and explosive threats: protection of goods in transit and in storage.

• The risk mitigation process: actions and operational tools to increase security.

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• The role of politics in the management of terrorist threats, asymmetric warfare and a natural event.

• Legal aspects and impact on the free movement of goods, people and ideas.

Part 2 –Security enabling technologies

• IT security management technologies

• Security management technologies in the transport sector:

• Air freight traffic

• Sea freight traffic

• Terrestrial freight traffic

• Transport of dangerous goods in road, sea and railways

• Maritime security procedures according to the IMDG Code.

Part 3 - Methodologies and tools for the security of goods

• Bayesian statistics applied to the industrial sector

• Decision support methodologies: Bayesian analysis, payoff table analysis, decision tree analysis and zero-sum game theory.

• The Viareggio case (exercise and discussion in the classroom)

• Simulation models for the assessment of the impact of industrial accidents on the transport of dangerous goods.

• Fallout Templates for Release of Dangerous Substances in the Environment: The Transitional Puff Scenario (Explosion)

• Structural mechanics, determination of stress characteristics, determination of tension and deformation, elasticity and plasticity, plastic collapse, boundary analysis theorems.

• Theories on breaking, breaking conditions, breaks for repeated stresses, fatigue breaking criteria. Equivalent limit states: safety check.

• Explosion, fireball and BLEVE effect patterns: structural aspects and protection criteria for freight transport and storage systems.

Assigment: Assessment of accident scenarios and risk mitigation by simulation and scenarios analysis (DA)

• The problem of e-commerce: safe handling of goods and purchasing procedures

Reference textbooks

• W.Oliver, N. marion, J, Hill, Introduction to homeland security,

• A. Guaganano, Perra, F., Dazzi, N., R. REVETRIA, Zaghi, P.,  MAST. (2007). Asymmetric Threat : Maritime border control. Paper presented at the Proceedings of MAST2007.

• W. Kelton, Randall Sadowski and David Sturrock, Simulation with Arena w/ CD-Rom”  McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

• Yih-Long Chan, WinQSB 2.0, Decision Support Software, Wiley International, ISBN 0-471-40672-4.

• GIRIBONE, P., F.OLIVA, REVETRIA R.,26th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control MIC'07. (2007). Risk Management of Dangerous Freight Using Montecarlo Simulation: Project and Operation Sides. Paper presented at the Mic2007, Innsbruck.

Deepening textbooks

• Donald Ermak, SLAB User Manual, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, 1990 (Public Domain)

• Yih-Long Chan, WinQSB 2.0, Decision Support Software, Wiley International, ISBN 0-471-40672-4.

• Riccardo Baldacci, Scienza delle Costruzioni, Vol II, Fondamenti di Meccanica delle Strutture (I-III, V-VI, IX), Edizioni UTET Torino, ISBN 88-02-04634-4, 1997

• Riccardo Baldacci, Scienza delle Costruzioni, Vol I, Fondamenti di Meccanica dei Solidi (I-IV, VIII), Edizioni UTET Torino, ISBN 88-02-03853-8, 1997

• http://write.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/index/

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1. The student's delivery of the calculation reports relating to assigments.

2. Oral discussion of an in-depth report on one of the lessons discussed

3. A multiple-choice test on all subjects covered by the course.

4. Evaluation of the frequency of teaching activities (lessons and exercises) proposed in the classroom