Debris Hazards Due to Overloaded Conventional Construction Facades

Abstract

Present results for experiments involving conventional facade materials (glass, concrete, and masonry) that have been overloaded to generate debris data at the structural and material levels. The material level samples have been loaded at high pressures using a small diameter shock tube to generate fragmentation at high strain rates. The structural level experiments include full-scale wall components and windows that have been overloaded in a large diameter shock tube at lower strain rates in order to generate structural level fragmentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1007837

Entities

People

  • Bryan Bewick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Bulletproof Glass
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Department Of Defense
  • Distribution Functions
  • Glass
  • High Pressure
  • Low Pass Filters
  • Masonry
  • Materials
  • Power Distribution
  • Probability Distribution Functions
  • Probability Distributions
  • Shock Tubes
  • Strain Rate

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Hydraulic Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design