Study on the mechanical response of glass facades under air blast loading Ghent University
Many buildings housing strategic companies or federal services employ a large glass curtain wall so as to have (literally and figuratively) a U+2018transparentU+2019 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 ...