SAS Safety of Airport Structures

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Program
• 1430 Welcome Francesco Di Maio, Paolo
  Gasparini
• 1500 Project Outline Antonio Nanni
• 1530 Results Presentation
• 1600 Coffee Break
• 1630 Results Presentation
• 1730 Open Discussion
• 1800 Adjourn

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Highlights
• Started in December 2006 (12-month duration)
• Funded by EPCIP 2006 - European Programme for
  Critical Infrastructure Protection - European
  Commission - Area Freedom Security, and Justice
• Total budget 500.000,00

• Objective to assess and optimize a barrier
  configuration to be used by ENAV to protect
  airport infrastructures

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Team Partners
• AMRA (project leader, research center - Italy)
• ENAV (end-user - Italy)
• WAI (engineering firm - UK)
• ATP (FRP manufacturer - Italy) and,
• Saint Gobain Vetrotex España (supplier - Spain).

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures
Critical infrastructure VORs
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SAS Safety of Airport Structures
Old fence system
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SAS Safety of Airport Structures
New fence system
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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Activities
• Design of a precast solution to achieve low-cost
  installation and maintenance
• Design of steel-free system to improve
  radio-transparency properties (including
  foundation)
• Assessment of radio-transparency properties of
  system through numerical analysis and physical
  tests
• Structural analysis and mechanical tests of
  system components and,
• Blast analysis and tests to verify capability to
  withstand dynamic loads and,
• Demonstration

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Participants
• Department of Structural Engineering Federico
  II (static tests)
• Department of Electrical Engineering Federico
  II (radio-transparency tests)
• Italian Navy Navispelog (blast test
  monitoring)
• Italian Police Questura di Napoli (blast test
  authorization)
• Italian Police Questura di Frosinone
  (explosives transport authorization)
• Italian Army consultants (blast tests)
• UEE Italia (blast tests explosives)

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Participants (cont.)
• Edilcalcestruzzi (blast tests - fire range)
• Endevco (blast tests - high shock
  accelerometers)
• Phantom (blast tests - high speed cameras)
• SUPSI University of Lugano (tests on dynamic
  material properties)
• PREMER s.r.l. (precast concrete base)
• Meccanica Faggio s.r.l. (static tests set-up)
• SEPE Costruzioni s.r.l. (blast tests barrier
  installation)
• COSEN s.r.l. (prototypes installation)

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures
Demo installation at Rome Airport November 22,
2007
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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Conclusions
• Project consisted of complex design of a civil
  structure taking into account unusual
  requirements
• Unconventional dynamic load scenario was
  considered and specific mechanical tests were
  performed
• Optimization of the system was conducted
  considering installation and maintenance
  requirements
• Numerical analysis and lab tests were carried out
  in order to verify radio-transparency properties
  of system

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Conclusions (cont.)
• Blast characterization of the structure was
  performed through numerical analysis and field
  test
• Project focused on defining a protocol with input
  from owner, engineer, researcher, and material
  supplier and manufacturer
• Field demonstration confirmed the success of the
  project and,
• This experience can be replicated for similar
  endeavors related to security problems.

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SAS Safety of Airport Structures

• Presentations
• Administrative management of the project (AMRA)
• Partecipant perspective (CSSN)
• Design of the barrier (AMRA)
• Composites in construction (AMRA)
• Radio transparency assessment of barrier
  (DIEL)
• Blast tests of barrier (AMRA CSSN)
• Numerical analysis of barrier subject to blast
  (WAI) and
• Open Discussion.\