Thermal Breakage of Glass

Glass has become one of the most popular and complex building materials used today, because of virtually unlimited aesthetic options, combined with outstanding performance. The growing interest of contemporary architecture to use glass in large façade surfaces raises technical issues. In order to propose reliable engineering solutions in glass...

Transparent restoration of historic buildings by structural glass components

Finding the strength of glass: A mechanical and fractographic research of glass' biaxial strength for structural purposes

Over the years, glass has been increasingly used as a structural building material. Structural calculations on glass are conservative because the strength is quite uncertain. Weibull plots of the strength of glass can range from 20 MPa to 150 MPa. This is caused by flaws, which are not visibile to the human eye and therefore it is difficult to...

Glass Columns: A fundamental study to slender glass columns assembled from rectangular monolithic flat glass plates under compression as a basis to design a structural glass column for a pavilion

In the world of structural engineering glass is an innovative material. Compared to other conventional structural materials like concrete, steel and timber, it is especially the transparency property that makes it a valued material. Due to the increasing demand for transparency in contemporary architecture, much more structural components as...