External claddings have been identified as a more critical component in buildings than
before due to many catastrophic fire incidents that occurred in recent decades. Present-day …

Several factors, including incentives associated with aesthetics, transparency, high
chemical, and mechanical durability, and its excellent corrosion resistance, have rapidly …

Laminated glass is made by joining two or more glass layers together using a polymeric
interlayer which can significantly minimize the risk of flying shards and dissipate a great deal …

To facilitate the development of accurate material models for glass, there is a need for
reliable experimental procedures that capture the stochastic nature of the material. The …

Architectural planners must give due consideration to seismic events as they present
substantial hazards to both critical infrastructure and human well-being. This research …

For engineering applications, human comfort in the built environment depends on several
objective aspects that can be mathematically controlled and limited to reference …

With the improvement of people's living standard, the requirements of indoor air environment
are also increased correspondingly. Trombe wall can not only improve the natural …

Fires involving the facade of a building are a modern and complex problem. Previous
reviews on fire safety of facades have addressed flammability and fire spread, but these are …

Laminated glass (LG) windows significantly enhance building safety due to their ability to
retain shattered glass within the interlayer, but their susceptibility to failure under blast …

A mathematical approach, alternative to the classical formulation of linear viscoelasticity,
defines the constitutive laws in terms of integro-differential equations involving fractional …