Design Methods and Structural Components of Blast Enhanced Facades

Frank Wellershoff

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-061-1-981

Design Methods and Structural Components of Blast Enhanced Facades

Frank Wellershoff^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Facade systems and building shells

Abstract

A “blast resistant” façade requires different numerical design methods and different structural components than a “normal” façade. The impulsive load requires a dynamic analysis with consideration of mass and inertia. To withstand an extreme blast load a façade should be flexible and able to absorb energy in properly designed and analyzed crash zones. These zones are the laminated glass and additional elasto-plastic connections along the load path to the sub structure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Challenging Glass 3
Subtitle of host publication	Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass
Editors	Freek Bos, Christian Louter, Rob Nijsse, Fred Veer
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Pages	981–996
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-61499-061-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-061-1-981
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	3rd Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3) - Delft , Netherlands Duration: 28 Jun 2012 → 29 Jun 2012

Conference

Conference	3rd Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3)
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	28/06/12 → 29/06/12

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Design Methods and Structural Components of Blast Enhanced Facades. / Wellershoff, Frank.
Challenging Glass 3: Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass. ed. / Freek Bos; Christian Louter; Rob Nijsse; Fred Veer. Amsterdam, 2012. p. 981–996.

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