Building with Glass as Structural Element in Alpine Areas
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Barbara Siebert
(Dr. Siebert Consulting Engineers, Munich, Germany)
Tobias Herrmann (Dr. Siebert Consulting Engineers, Munich, Germany) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering the Future, Vancouver, Canada, 21-23 September 2017 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Vancouver 2017 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 2370-2377 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2017 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/vancouver.2017.2370 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Building with glass as structural element becomes more and more common. Under special boundary conditions like in alpine areas this might become a challenge concerning design and execution at the building site. Important points are the climatic conditions in alpine regions, like extreme wind loads and extreme pressures for insulating glass units due to the difference in altitude, narrow installation situations and a narrow time slot. Basics and applications of glass constructions in these extreme boundary conditions are presented. Two summit stations with glass applications, the Nebelhorn (2224m) and the Zugspitze (2962m) are presented. |
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| Keywords: |
façades glass railings curved glass insulating glass unit
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