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Chiara Bedon

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Purpose: Glass material is largely used for load-bearing components in buildings. For this reason, standardized calculation methods can be used in support of safe structural design in common loading and boundary conditions. Differing from earlier literature efforts, the present s ...
This paper investigates the structural response of laminated glass beams under combined fire-exposure and sustained in-plane loading. This is done by means of experimental testing and Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling. Firstly, small-scale (1 m long) laminated glass beams a ...

Structural glass beams with embedded GFRP, CFRP or steel reinforcement rods

Comparative experimental, analytical and numerical investigations

The use of hybrid and composite solutions for structural applications represents a common approach for the development of safe design principles. Consolidated examples exist for concrete, steel and masonry structures. As a general rule, materials are combined so as to obtain an e ...
In this paper, careful consideration is paid for structural glass elements under fire loading. In particular, a thermo-mechanical Finite Element (FE) numerical investigation is carried out in ABAQUS on small-scale structural glass elements exposed to fire. Taking advantage of pas ...
The bending performance of laminated glass (LG) beams with Glass-Fibre-Reinforced-Polymer (GFRP)-embedded rods is numerically assessed in this paper, based on earlier experimental investigations.

Compared to existing literature efforts related to reinforced glass beams – ...
Laminated glass components are usually realized by bonding glass plates using interlayer polymers that develop adhesion forces during lamination. Recently, these adhesion forces have been used also to realize special adhesive connections for structural glass components and assemb ...
Taking advantage of past full-scale experimental test results, the bending performance of laminated glass beams with post-tensioned, adhesively bonded steel tendons is explored via refined Finite-Element (FE) models. As far as the primary advantage of the post-tensioned glass bea ...
Architectural trends to include transparency in structural systems lead to the implementation, in the last decades, of structural glass load-bearing components able to substitute traditional construction materials like timber, steel, concrete.

In this paper, the structur ...
In this paper, a Finite-Element (FE) numerical investigation is carried out on laminated glass beams with Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) adhesively bonded post-tensioning tendons. Taking advantage of past four-point bending experimental test results available in literatur ...
SentryGlas®(SG)-laminated reinforced glass beams are numerically investigated. This innovative structural typology consists of a composite section in which the typical brittle behaviour of glass is overcome by means of stainless steel sections able to provide significant post-cra ...
Due to their increasing use in contemporary architecture, the lateral torsional buckling performance of laminated structural glass beams represents a topic of great interest for researchers. Although several analytical models and design approaches have been recently proposed, var ...