This paper investigates the possibility of attenuation-based security within chemical industrial areas. Representing chemical industrial areas as mathematical networks, we prove by case-study that the resilience to disaster of such areas may follow a power-law distribution. Furthermore, we examine what happens to the network when highly hazardous installations would be intelligently protected against malicious acts: the network disintegrates into separate smaller networks. Hence, islands are formed with no escalation danger in between. We conclude that it is possible to protect chemical industrial areas in such a way that they are more resilient against terrorism.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	attenuation-based security, chemical industrial clusters, domino effects, industrial parks, resilience engineering, terrorist attacks, quality assurance, safety engineering, attenuation-based security, domino effects, industrial cluster, terrorism
Research Division:	Engineering
Research Group:	Chemical engineering
Research Field:	Chemical engineering design
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding knowledge in engineering
UTAS Author:	Khan, FI (Professor Faisal Khan)
ID Code:	120745
Year Published:	2014
Web of Science® Times Cited:	32
Deposited By:	NC Maritime Engineering and Hydrodynamics
Deposited On:	2017-08-30
Last Modified:	2017-10-30
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