Master's Thesis

Assessing the protection of significant soft targets against terrorist attacks by pedestrian simulation

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Author of thesis: Ing. Ondřej Uhlík

Acad. year: 2018/2019

Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Apeltauer, Ph.D.

Reviewer: doc. Ing. Martin Hromada, Ph.D.

Abstract:

Diploma thesis deals with the issue of terrrorism in relation to soft targets and subsequent assessment of the selected soft target in terms of possible terrorist attack. The objective is primary school Sirotkova in Brno. The assessment criteria was evacuation of the school as a whole and its individual parts. A risk analysis was performed for the object to determine real threats in which there were clasified the probability and extent of impacts of potential attacks. The most likely scenarios of the attack were identified, based on this analysis. These scenarios were subsequently implemented into an advanced numerical 3D model, where the evacuation was simulated within these scenarios. In the framework of the school assessment, the work focused on comparing three different approaches to the evacuation process. The evacuation process was compared according to parameters of experimental data obtained from the practise of evacuation of primary school with evacuation processes set acording to the parameters of fire standards CSN and international SFPE fire safety standards.
The results of the individual simulations were processed with a statistically determined probability percentile. The outcome of the assessment was to determine the probable evacuation time of the school and its individual parts. Based on these results, there was performed a proposal to optimize the evacuation process of the school, which made the process more efective and shortened the evacuation time to minimalize the impact of a potential terrorist attack.

Keywords:

terrorism, soft target, evacuation time, evacuation process, numerical model, risk analysis, person movement, simulation of movement, security of building, initial delay

Date of defence

30.01.2019

Result of the defence

Defended (thesis was successfully defended)

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Grading

A

Process of defence

Student Uhlík Ondřej seznámil komisi s obsahem své diplomové práce. Na otázky a připomínky plynoucí z posudků vedoucího a oponenta a komise při odborné rozpravě nad diplomovou prací ~Posouzení ochrany významných měkkých cílů vůči teroristickým útokům prostřednictvím simulace evakuace osob~ reagoval výborně.

Language of thesis

Czech

Faculty

Department

Institute of Computer Aided Engineering and Computer Science

Study programme

Municipal Engineering (N-P-C-MI)

Field of study

Municipal Engineering (X)

Composition of Committee

Doc. Ing. Zita Prostějovská, Ph.D. - předseda,
doc. Mgr. Tomáš Apeltauer, Ph.D. - místopředseda,
Ing. Tereza Komárková, Ph.D. - tajemník,
doc. Ing. Petr Cikrle, Ph.D. - člen,
prof. Ing. Petr Hlavínek, CSc., MBA - člen,
Ing. arch. Tomáš Pavlovský, Ph.D. - člen,
Ing. Marie Rusinová, Ph.D. - člen,
Ing. Lucie Vaňková , Ph.D. - člen,
doc. Ing. Nikol Žižková, Ph.D. - člen

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Reviewer’s report
doc. Ing. Martin Hromada, Ph.D.

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Responsibility: Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Odstrčilová