Ir Dr Faizal Mustapha is currently a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Universiti Putra Malaysia. He has been in UPM since 1999. He received his BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at Salford University, UK after securing scholarship under Public Service Department (JPA). He was later offered a scholarship from ADB (ASEAN Development Bank under SIRIM) to further his Master’s degree studies straight away after completing his BEng. He accepted the offer and continued at the same university. On his return to Malaysia in 1997, he had been appointed as Research Associate at SIRIM Berhad formely known as SIRIM one of the most prestigious research institutes in Malaysia. He was entrusted to be one of the prime mover under the first National Artificial Intelligent Laboratory in Malaysia under SIRM called AISDEL (Artificial Intelligent System Development Laboratory) sponsored by JICA, Japan. After completing his contract with SIRIM Berhad in September 1999, he was offered a lecturing post at Universiti Putra Malaysia. Based on his excellence performance in 2003 he was offered a HRD scholarship under MOSTI to undergo his research interest in Structural defects of an aircraft parts in Sheffield University, UK. He completed his PhD work within 3 years and being offered a Visiting Researcher under EU Grant at same university. His area of research are Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Smart Structures with an emphasis on smart sensor, detecting structural anomalies, solar PV panel defects via Lamb wave, thermal imaging, and other related technologies. His core research interest encompasses in advanced material which include composite, hybrid composite and bio-composite as well. He is also enhancing the renewable energy research via Smart Vertical Wind Turbine (sVAWT) He is also venturing into newly refined coating material from bio waste for fire retardant material and thermal coating applications

Dr Mohammed Alias Yusof is a distinguished academic figure and professor at UPNM, specializing in the fields of Blast loading on structure, Blast resistant Materials and also explosive technology. He is known for his significant contributions to the study of blast resistant materials especially concrete and glass which are vital in improving the safety and performance of building structure subjected to explosion. His research often integrates advanced analytical techniques, such as finite element analysis (FEA) and fractography, to investigate the root causes of material failures in engineering components. Throughout his career, Dr Mohammed Alias Yusof has been involved in both teaching and research, guiding students and professionals in the importance of failure analysis, quality control, and materials engineering.

For many years glass has been one of the most widely used construction materials for building facades. However, glass as a building material is very brittle, when explosion occurs, the air blast pressure, typically fractures glass windows, which might kill people and damage the surrounding areas. When these materials subjected to explosion, it is not capable of withstanding the blast pressures due to the blast loadings. In most cases, the blast pressures which are exerted on building surfaces may be several orders of magnitude greater than the loads assigned for the building. The explosion is normally destroyed on the exterior walls which are mainly made by annealed glass . Eventually ,this will generally cause the building façades to damage. Thus, these building façade which are made of annealed glass need some form of improvement to withstand the blast pressure due to the explosion. Thus this research talk presents the development of blast resistant glass material using polyurethane resin as interlayer.