Abstract: A blast test was conducted inside a conventional, two-story, unreinforced, brick, bearing wall building scheduled to be demolished. A credible explosive device was placed inside the building on the ground floor and was ...

Abstract: Linear elastic and nonlinear elastic analytical investigations are reported for a nearly conventional, laminated glass curtain wall with split screw spline mullions subjected to low-level blast loading. Responses (dynamic ...

Abstract: Recent terrorist events have underscored the importance of designing glass curtain walls as engineered systems. For most building owners, however, it is usually an unjustifiable expense to have a curtain wall designed to ...