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Explosions, Bomb Blast, Blast Mitigation and More.

Explosions:

Whether accidental, as in an industrial gas leak or an intentional political or terrorist act, the results are always the same: massive devastation and destruction. Government reports concluded that 27 lives were lost in the Oklahoma City bombing with the primary cause of death being flying glass and debris. Flying glass is the major cause of injury and death in bomb blast conditions.

An explosion displaces air and creates a shock wave or as more commonly known: over pressure.  This over pressure results in a vacuum being created where the blast has pushed air away from itself generating a shock wave. Almost instantaneously, a vacuum created by the over-pressure causes an immediate rush of air back to the point of origin, causing glass while in its frame to flex back towards the original direction of the shock wave then back again. The results are that framed glass flexes backward and forward from both positive and negative pressures resulting in catastrophic breakage and a explosion like condition when the framed glass reaches its point of failure. 

                             

 

When glass is treated with GSS' film products, the effect of a bomb blast on glass is dramatically reduce thereby aiding in glass protection and lessening injury and death causing catastrophic glass breakage. GSS' polyester films (safety and security films) have the ability to stretch without tearing and also have  the characteristics to absorb a large portion of the shock wave the negative and positive pressure created by the explosion. In many cases the glass may break, but due to the strength of our GSS' films, proprietary solutions, and acrylic adhesives, the glass remains adhered to the film and in the frame up to 95% and more .

 

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Bomb Explosion With Treated Glass Video

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