Print Email Facebook Twitter Blast response of Glass Facades Title Blast response of Glass Facades: Retrofit for blast effect mitigation in the event of a terrorist bombing attack Author De Haan, S.F. Contributor Nijsse, R. (mentor) Weerheijm, J. (mentor) Terwel, K.C. (mentor) van Doormaal, A. (mentor) Kraaijenbrink, H. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Date 2017-04-20 Abstract The number of terrorist attacks on public places has substantially grown over the past two decades. More than half of these attacks were bombings. Past bombing events have shown that 45% of the injuries is caused by glass breakage. . The building engineering practice could help reducing the consequences, by retrofitting glass facades to mitigate blast- effects at potential target locations. The thesis presents a model to analytically obtain the blast capacity of a rectangular laminated glass plate in the pre- and post- breakage phase of response. Based on analysis of the integral facade of case study De Rotterdam, a retrofit strategy of controlled failure is proposed. Finally, suitable design concepts are presented. Subject BlastLaminated glassRetrofitPost- breakageControlled failure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f69e0916-fb0f-4e0d-88e2-3929d5d0241f Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2017 De Haan, S.F. Files PDF SFDeHaan_graduation_final ... pdate2.pdf 129.86 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f69e0916-fb0f-4e0d-88e2-3929d5d0241f/datastream/OBJ/view