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Optimizing Structural and System Resilience

Optimizing Structural and System Resilience

Instructors


Rudy Matalucci, Ph.D., P.E., Retired LT.COL. (USAF)
Dr. Matalucci is the President of Rudolph Matalucci Consultants, Inc., Specialists in Infrastructure and Architectural Surety®, in Albuquerque, NM. During twenty two years at Sandia National Laboratories, he served as project manager for DOE and DOD funded R & D programs for deeply buried nuclear waste repositories, advanced nuclear weapons security and survivability facilities, environmental cleanup of contaminated DOE sites, and building and infrastructure protection against malevolent attacks. In the 20 years with the USAF, he directed R & D for high-explosive blast and shock simulations for evaluation of nuclear and conventional weapons effects on military structures; and directed design, construction, and testing of prototype facilities around the world. At Sandia, Dr. Matalucci was a distinguished member of the technical staff and project manager for Infrastructure and Architectural Surety® federal and non-federal programs. (http://www.archsur.com)

John Strothman
Mr. Strothman President of Strothman / Associates,Inc., Evanston, IL. is a Senior Consultant to Sandia National Laboratories and manages industry and federal technology transfer interests in high-consequence applications. S/A, Inc. creates tools which demonstrate the economic and functional benefits of new technology during transfer such as mentoring systematic resource allocation and security awareness and focus. The firm specializes in Surety Engineering and Architectural Surety (R) methodologies and is licensed in Risk Assessment Methodologies for Dams (RAM-D). Mr. Strothman has an MBA from Harvard University and an AB from Cornell University. His prior expertise has been in the fields of investment banking, manufacturing, and marketing for the companies Paine Webber, John Hancock, Lockheed Martin, and IBM. He has been an active contributor to ASCE and CERF.
(http://www.suretyaggregator.com)

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Course Description

This seminar will provide an introduction to the systematic and robust Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) developed by Sandia National Laboratories, and recognized by the Federal Laboratory Council as an outstanding R & D technology transfer project for 2002. While this methodology was originally developed for dams and power transmission, the seminar will demonstrate how it can be successfully applied to both structures and other infrastructures to improve their security, resilience and performance. Participants will learn how to screen for critical assets, apply fault-tree analyses, and assess threats, consequences, and vulnerabilities (security system ineffectiveness). Adversary sequence diagrams will be used to determine most likely attack scenarios and develop security strategies for effective upgrades and consequence mitigation. Because today’s challenges to security and performance are constantly changing, the instructors will provide current event materials for classroom discussion, and encourage participants to contribute additional information  which will then be incorporated into viable solutions. As a concluding seminar project, participants will form teams to conduct and critique risk management assessment case study prototypes. This seminar is being offered in conjunction with The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP),an organization established to facilitate dialogue and encourage collaboration between associations and agencies on issues related to the security of the nation’s built environment. TISP offers sources of technical support and comment on public policy related to building security. Its member associations and agencies currently represent over 1.25 million individuals from nationally recognized firms.

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Seminar Benefits

  • Learn a methodology that is both practical and user-friendly
  • Learn tools and process to optimize a building’s resilience
  • Experience the advantages of a systematic and robust process
  • Gain confidence through the application of a performance-based approach.
  • Address resilience in multi-hazards & multi-threat environments
  • Meet the challenges to security performance in a risk management context

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Who Should Attend

Professionals from all disciplines who have a responsibility for the safety and security of public or private buildings facilities and their supporting infrastructures..

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    Summary Outline

    Day One & Two


    • Tools And Concepts
      • Critical Asset Identification (fault trees & more)
      • Physical Resilience System Effectiveness
      • Scenario Development (adversary sequence diagrams)
      • Risk Management Elements
      • Incident/Threat Identification and Assessment
      • Consequence Assessment
      • Strategy Comparisons for Risk Reduction (matrices, resource allocations)
    • Transferred Technology
      • Risk Assessment Methodology summaries (D.O.E.RAM’s)
      • Engineered Smart Materials (stress profiled glass, structural design, more)
      • Instrumentation and non-destructive evaluation
    • Teamed Class Exercises
      • Application of individual tool-sets challenging resilience
      • Combining tool-sets for integrated design and retrofits
      • Team Presentation and Lessons Learned Review
      • Diversion dams
    • Security Risk Assessment Methodology
      • Applied federally validated methodologies discussion
      • Transfer of methodology among infrastructure subsets (RAM-B,etc.)
    • Surety Engineering Introduction
      • Integration of functionality (reliability, safety, security)
      • Integration of environments (normal, abnormal,malevolent)
      • Systems orientation to optimizing resilience
      • Optimizing resilience beyond ‘checklists’to ‘system effectiveness’
      • Architectural Surety® explained concretely
      • Collaborations with Universities highlighted

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      Attendee’s Comments


      “There are no silver bullets for the current security environment including maintenance, operations and retrofit of facility assets. This seminar is for all disciplines."
      Vincent Kam, Office of The Assistant Chief of Staff for Installations
      Management, U.S. Army

      “Excellent seminar! I gathered enough information about where I need to go professionally. One of the best seminars I have been to in years”.
      –David R.Kindig, BMT Entech, Reston, VA

      ““A difficult subject made easy and put into words. The seminar quantified ‘risk’ and described it in words.”
      -David Drevinsky, Program Manager, GSA, Boston, MA

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