Engineers Develop Safer, Blast-resistant Glass
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 22:21
in Physics & Chemistry
To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, researchers are developing and testing a new type of blast-resistant glass that will be thinner, lighter and less vulnerable to small-scale explosions.