{"id":2433,"date":"2010-12-10T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:30:36","slug":"univ-researchers-develop-new-blast-resistant-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Univ. Researchers Develop New Blast-Resistant Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2435\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GlassTest_PaulRagdaleDHS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2435\" title=\"GlassTest_PaulRagdaleDHS\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GlassTest_PaulRagdaleDHS.jpg\" alt=\"Glass test result (Paul Ragdale\/Department of Homeland Security)\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GlassTest_PaulRagdaleDHS.jpg 267w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/GlassTest_PaulRagdaleDHS-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Paul Ragdale\/Department of Homeland Security)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A team of engineers from the University of Missouri in Columbia and the University of Sydney in Australia is developing a blast-resistant glass that is lighter, thinner, and colorless, yet tough enough to withstand the force of an explosion, earthquake, or hurricanes winds. Their research is funded by a grant from the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/files\/programs\/gc_1288121930966.shtm\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Installing blast-resistant glass in buildings that are potential targets of attacks or in regions prone to severe weather can save lives. Current blast-resistant glass technology, however, is thicker than a 300-page novel, which makes it difficult and expensive to replace standard glass windows in present structures.<\/p>\n<p>The new material is a plastic composite that has an interlayer of polymer reinforced with glass fibers-and it&#8217;s only a quarter-inch thick, unlike blast-resistant windows today that are made of pure polymer layers. The project team recently subjected their new glass pane to a small explosion. The discharge left the pane cracked, but the front surface remained completely intact (see photo right).<\/p>\n<p>The new plastic composite uses glass fibers in the form of a woven cloth soaked with liquid plastic and bonded with adhesive. The pane is a layer of this glass-reinforced clear plastic sandwiched between two slim sheets of glass.<\/p>\n<p>The new material is expected to be comparable in cost to current blast-proof glass panes, but lighter in weight. Since the composite is only a quarter-inch thick, it is expected to fit standard commercial window frames.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers from the University of Missouri in Columbia and the University of Sydney in Australia is developing a blast-resistant glass that is lighter, thinner, and colorless, yet tough enough to withstand the force of an explosion, earthquake, or hurricanes winds. Their research is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,15],"tags":[86,38,43,105,26],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","category-products","tag-engineering","tag-grant","tag-materials-science","tag-physical-sciences","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}