Index

9/11 attacks, 1 - 2, 241

AACS (automatic access control system),267

access control vehicle barriers, 264 active vehicle security barriers, 262,263 - 267, 268 - 269 adaptive grids, 72 - 73 Air3d (high explosive detonation modelling code), 70

air quality, protected spaces, 279 - 280 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building1

(Oklahoma City), 23, 24, 220, 222 alternate loadpath analysis, robustness, 24,227,230 - 245

ambient/atmospheric pressure, 14, 56 ammonia, 278

anchoring systems, glazing, 185 ANFO (ammonium nitrate-fuel oil), 39 annealed glass

behaviour, 19, 180, 181, 191, 192 dynamic breaking strength, 194 - 197, 198

hazard classification, 211 - 213 in laminated glass see laminated glass ring-on-ring tests, 196