Impact resistance of laminated glass using `sacrificial ply' design concept

Journal of Architectural Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-34

  Kaiser, Nathan D ^a   Behr, Richard A ^b   Minor, Joseph E ^a   Dharani, Lokeswarappa R ^a   Ji, Fangsheng ^a   Kremer, Paul A ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; GLASS; IMPACT RESISTANCE; IMPACT TESTING; LAMINATES;

ARCHITECTURAL GLASS; LAMINATED GLASS;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

EID: 0034156424     PISSN: 10760431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0431(2000)6:1(24)     Document Type: Article

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