All glass balustrades made of glass
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Barbara Siebert
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Elegance in structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Nara 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 138-139 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815815774313 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Glass becomes more and more popular for applications in building structures. Examples are facades, large overhead glazing's and constructions completely made of glass. On the one hand side the architect wants to design an elegant and transparent structure; on the other hand side the engineer wants to design a robust and safe structure. Also for "small" applications like balustrades and railings it is important to design a safe structure. If person are falling against the balustrade it is not allowed that the railing collapses. With the use of new materials (e.g. new interlayer materials between the glass panes) it is possible to realize very transparent solutions with a minimum amount of metal. Often tests (pendulum impact tests) are necessary. |
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| Keywords: |
finite element analysis FEA railing glass structure Pendulum impact test
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