Critical infrastructure systems : security analysis and modelling approach

A system security analysis and system modelling framework tool is proposed adopting an associated conceptual methodology as the basis for assessing security and conceptually modelling a critical infrastructure system incident. The intent is to identify potential system security issues and gain operational insights that will contribute to improving system resilience, contingency planning, disaster recovery and ameliorating incident management responses for critical infrastructure system incidents. The aforementioned system security analysis and modelling framework is applied to an adverse critical infrastructure system incident case study. This paper reports on the practical application of the framework to a case study of an actual critical infrastructure system failure and the resultant incident implications for the system and the wider regional communities.<br /

Numerical and Experimental Modelling of Structure-borne Aircraft Interior Noise

Abstract: In the present paper, the problem of structure-borne interior noise generated in an aircraft cabin has been considered using a simplified reduced-scale model of a passenger aircraft. Experimental investigations included measurements of frequency response functions at several positions of a microphone inside the aircraft, when an electromagnetic shaker exciting structural vibrations was located at different places. Numerical investigations have been carried out as well, and they included finite element calculations of structural and acoustic modes as well as frequency response functions for interior acoustic pressure. Some of the obtained numerical results have been compared with the experimental ones. The observed reasonably good agreement between them indicates that structure-borne interior noise in the described reduced-scale aircraft model can be predicted and understood rather well. This demonstrates that the proposed approach employing simplified reduced-scale structural models can be used successfully for prediction and mitigation of aircraft interior noise