Elegant and safe structures 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): | 32-33 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815815773783 | ||||
| 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. It is possible to fulfil these two demands. Glass is a brittle material, so it is important to design very careful - for both: the architect and the engineer. So many points are important for the design: The details, the background of the theory of glass (structure mechanics), a close to reality Finite Element analysis, and often testing of glass to guarantee a sufficient remaining load carrying capacity. |
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| Keywords: |
façade finite element analysis FEA glass structure remaining load carrying capacity
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