Vulnerability and Structural Capacity Assessment of Historic Glass Facades under Bird-Strike

Figure 14

Structural performance of glass facade under B#1 impact in P1-1 ( = 20 m/s): (a) example of out-of-plane deflection (at a time of 0.01 s after impact); (b) in-plane principal strain in time and evidence of (c) strain energy evolution (ABAQUS/explicit).

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