Abstract: The performance of residential buildings during hurricanes is as important as the performance of other buildings. Buildings where people live and where they are likely to be when a hurricane strikes must survive. If this ...

Abstract: Lessons learned from failures of the building envelope in windstorms are encapsulated in three principal findings. The building envelope is crucial to the performance of buildings in windstorms. Windborne debris is decisive ...

Abstract: Laminated glass used in architectural glazing comprises two layers of glass connected by a thin interlayer of polyvinyl butyral. Previously reported nondestructive experimental stress analyses offer evidence that laminated ...

Abstract: This paper presents a simplified window glass design procedure (SWGDP) as an alternative to the comprehensive window glass design procedure described in ASTM E 1300, “Standard practice for determining the load resistance ...

Abstract: ASTM Standard E 1300-04 (“Standard practice for determining load resistance of glass in buildings”) outlines procedures for determining the strength of window glass products when the glass is subjected to uniform lateral ...

Abstract: As part of an ongoing laminated glass research program at the Glass Research and Testing Laboratory at Texas Tech University, full‐scale laminated glass laboratory specimens were tested under uniform lateral loads and ...

Abstract: Silicone sealants are used as structural connections between the two glass plates in an insulating glass (IG) unit and between the IG unit and the supporting mullion. These connections become an integral part of the entire ...

Abstract: Theoretical stress analyses of thin glass plates are applied to monolithic and layered (two plates with no connection) systems to establish limits of behavior for laminated (two plates with interlayer) systems. Behaviors ...