Study on the mechanical response of glass facades under air blast loading

Abstract

Many buildings housing strategic companies or federal services employ a large glass curtain wall so as to have (literally and figuratively) a ‘transparent’ image towards the public. However, in case of a blast event, resulting glass shards impose major threats. With our research, we hope to mitigate these threats by increasing knowledge about the post-failure behaviour of laminated glass. Therefore, blast experiments and advanced numerical modelling will be conducted