Investigations on the Cold Bending Behaviour of a Cold-Bent Double Glazing Unit with a Rigid Edge-Spacer Frame

Free-form façades with bent glass have become increasingly popular in recent times. As bent glass is stiffer against out-of-plane loads, it can result in thinner glass and lower embodied carbon. A promising new technique is to cold bend thin glass plates with a stiff structural edge into a hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar), and to subsequently lock...