Resistance of glass window subjected to high velocity soft impact

Abstract

Nowadays glass as a structural material is spread use not only for buildings in form of façade, windows and columns, but as well as for the protection of displays of electronical devices, or windows used in aeroplanes. In all cases is essential to describe the behaviour of glass panels under the high velocity soft impact caused for example by bird strike, icicles impact and bumps. In this paper the aim is to describe method to estimate the resistance of glass against drop soft impact and the comparison with the real tests.