Towards blast safety of glass facades: Research advances and prospects

IF 5.7 1区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Thin-Walled Structures Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI:10.1016/j.tws.2025.113213

Suwen Chen , Xing Chen , Yujia Lu , Xin Guo , Siyi Yi , Yu Luo

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Abstract

The blast safety of glass facades and windows has drawn increasing attention in recent years due to the significant risks posed by glass-shard-related injuries in terrorist attacks and accidental explosions. This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in blast resistant design of glass facades, addressing critical issues such as the mechanical properties of facade materials, specifically glass, interlayers, and silicone adhesives, pre- and post-fracture behavior of typical glass facades/windows under blast loading. The corresponding modelling methods, design methods and hazard mitigation techniques for enhancing blast safety of glass facades are also thoroughly examined. Regarding façade materials, the paper delves into the mechanical properties under dynamic loading and different aging effects, microscale characterization, and commonly used constitutive models, while highlighting existing research limitations. In addition, the paper reviews research on the blast response of different types of glass panels, including monolithic, laminated and insulating glass panels, elucidating their response characteristics and failure mechanisms, as well as comparing various modeling approaches. Furthermore, the paper reviewed design methods and blast hazard mitigation techniques for glazing systems, encompassing both classical methods and recent innovative strategies. A systematic categorization of blast hazard mitigation techniques for glazing systems based on different reinforcement strategies is also presented. In the end, the paper identified several critical issues that have emerged in recent years and outlines potential future challenges in the field.

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Thin-Walled Structures 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

9.60

自引率

20.30%

发文量

801

审稿时长

66 days

期刊介绍： Thin-walled structures comprises an important and growing proportion of engineering construction with areas of application becoming increasingly diverse, ranging from aircraft, bridges, ships and oil rigs to storage vessels, industrial buildings and warehouses. Many factors, including cost and weight economy, new materials and processes and the growth of powerful methods of analysis have contributed to this growth, and led to the need for a journal which concentrates specifically on structures in which problems arise due to the thinness of the walls. This field includes cold– formed sections, plate and shell structures, reinforced plastics structures and aluminium structures, and is of importance in many branches of engineering. The primary criterion for consideration of papers in Thin–Walled Structures is that they must be concerned with thin–walled structures or the basic problems inherent in thin–walled structures. Provided this criterion is satisfied no restriction is placed on the type of construction, material or field of application. Papers on theory, experiment, design, etc., are published and it is expected that many papers will contain aspects of all three.