Glass has been overwhelmingly used for windows and facades in modern constructions, for
many practical reasons, including thermal, energy, light and aesthetics. Nevertheless, due to …

A massive chemical detonation occurred on August 4, 2020 in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon.
An uncontrolled fire in an adjacent warehouse ignited~ 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate …

This new edition of a bestseller incorporates recent developments and advances in
thermoplastics with regard to materials development, processing, properties, and …

We review the current state of academic research in glass science in the United States. Our
analysis is based on an evaluation of the number of journal articles published across the …

Laminated glass is a simple sandwiched composite structure, while being widely used in the
automotive industry as windshield glazings. It is considered to be safety glass due to its …

In this study, numerical simulations are performed to construct the pressure–impulse (P–I)
diagrams for PVB laminated float glass windows to provide correlations between dynamic …

This paper presents results of laboratory tests and numerical simulations on the vulnerability
of laminated glass windows subjected to windborne wooden block impact. Wooden debris …

A model is proposed to evaluate the effects of explosions on laminated glass plates, made of
glass plies bonded by thin polymeric interlayers, in the pre-glass-breakage phase. The …

Automotive laminated glass is normally comprised of two soda-lime glass sheets bonded
with one plastic interlayer, polyvinyl butyral (PVB). Glass-ply cracking is the principal …

Glass is an omnipresent material which is widely used as façade in buildings. Damage of
glass windows and the associated glass fragments induced by impact and blast loads …