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Summary
Challenging Glass accompanies the first Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass, which is organized at TU Delft. It provides the reader with nearly seventy papers, written by A01s with backgrounds varying from practicing architects, structural and facade engineers through contractors to researchers in material science, building physics, lighting, and building and civil engineering. Just about every challenge that glass poses for architectural and structural applications is being dealt with.The topics that are covered in this edition range from glass joints, fixings and adhesives to architectural designs to the strength, stability and safety of glass. Other important issues are laminates and composite designs, glass lighting, the curving and bending of glass and the many facades of glass. Challenging Glass contains a gathering of PhD researchers from around Europe and the world and truly accepts every facet of transparency and brittleness; those features that make glass so challenging.
Table of Contents
| Hidden and Expressed Geometry of Glass | p. 9 |
| Light work | p. 19 |
| Glass Structures from Stairs to Cubes | p. 29 |
| Designing Glasses to Meet Specific Mechanical Properties | p. 39 |
| As You See, You See Nothing - Built With Glass | p. 51 |
| Free-Standing Structural Glass Pavilion - Structural Design and Detailing | p. 59 |
| The Use of Glass in Restoration | p. 67 |
| Free Span Structural Glass Staircase | p. 77 |
| Long Span Glass Fin Design | p. 89 |
| Glass Structures for Exhibition Stands | p. 101 |
| Innovative Glass Joints - The 11 March Memorial in Madrid | p. 111 |
| Glass Constructions - Applications in Germany | p. 119 |
| New Approach of Bended Glass Panels at the Nordkettenbahn in Innsbruck | p. 127 |
| Challenging glass, raising the limits | p. 135 |
| Principles and Geometry of Modular Steel-Glass Space Structures | p. 145 |
| Testing on Space Grid Structures with Glass as Compression Layer | p. 155 |
| Optimization of bolted connections in loadbearing glass elements | p. 165 |
| A New Concept for the Design of Structural Glass supported by Point Fittings | p. 175 |
| Structural Use of Adhesives in Glass Shells | p. 185 |
| Opportunities for the welding and hot-shaping of borosilicate glass tubes in building structural applications | p. 193 |
| Structural Timber-Glass Adhesive Bonding | p. 205 |
| Heerema all glass stairway | p. 215 |
| Understanding Complex Adhesive Behaviour: Case Study U-type Bonding Geometry | p. 227 |
| Design of large point fixed glass with a bespoke connection | p. 241 |
| Linear Connection System for Structural Application of Glass Panels in Fully Transparent Pavilions | p. 253 |
| Properties of an Adhesive for Structural Glass Applications | p. 263 |
| Glass-Steel Connections Using Acrylate Adhesives | p. 273 |
| Bolted Connections of Glass Structures by Means of Two Holes In-Line | p. 279 |
| The influences of overlap length, bond line thickness and pretreatment on the mechanical properties of adhesives in general and bonding glass in particular | p. 285 |
| Calculating Bonded Joints with Acrylates | p. 295 |
| How to Affect Residual Stresses in Glass Tempering | p. 303 |
| Bending stresses in Facetted Glass Shells | p. 313 |
| Buckling of Laminated Glass Columns. Comparison and Replacement | p. 323 |
| The Challenge of Predicting Glass Lifetime | p. 331 |
| Transparent Surface Structures - Engineering to Architecture | p. 341 |
| Testing for Safety and Quality - Destructive and non destructive Testing Methods for flat Glass used in Buildings | p. 353 |
| Numerical Research on Glass Panes Acting as a Shear Wall | p. 359 |
| Towards Design Rules for Structures with Glass Panels During Impact | p. 369 |
| Glass Structures and their Structural Reliability - a discussion | p. 377 |
| Experimental Investigation of Residual Stresses in Toughened Glass | p. 387 |
| Corrugated Glass as Improvement to the Structural Resistance of Glass | p. 399 |
| New German DIN Standard DIN 18008 jar Design of Glass Structures | p. 413 |
| The strength of architectural glass | p. 419 |
| Temperature Dependent Behaviour of Glass/Ionomer Laminates: Preliminary Test Results | p. 431 |
| Timber-Glass Composite Beams: Mechanical Behaviour & Architectural Solutions | p. 439 |
| Timber-Glass Composite Structural Panels: Experimental Studies & Architectural Applications | p. 449 |
| Post-breakage behaviour of laminated glass in structural applications | p. 459 |
| Reinforced Laminated Glass | p. 469 |
| Redundancy of reinforced glass beams; temperature, moisture and time dependent behaviour of the adhesive bond | p. 479 |
| Transparency versus Security | p. 491 |
| Climatic Loads in Curved Insulated Glasses | p. 503 |
| Spontaneous glass breakage in hot bent, heat-strengthened, laminated glass panels | p. 513 |
| Adjustable Mould for Architectural Freely Curved Glass | p. 523 |
| Relating the materialising of non-orthogonal glass facades to high-rises of incremental geometrical complexity | p. 531 |
| 'Zappi' Glass Structures and Constructions in 'Blob' Architecture | p. 545 |
| Glass for Structural Applications - the development of the connection design | p. 557 |
| Driving the Future of Glass | p. 571 |
| Structure? No Structure! | p. 579 |
| Advantages of Switchable Glazing for Architectural Applications Based on Liquid Crystal Technology | p. 591 |
| Nykredit facade - The use of glass in the 1 m zone | p. 601 |
| Development of High Performance Glass Structures | p. 613 |
| Effect of coated and tinted glazing on daylight quality in a residential space: experimental study in scale model | p. 621 |
| Insulating Glass with inserts for Sun and Energy Control | p. 631 |
| Blast enhanced facades for the new World Trade Centre Towers, NY | p. 643 |
| Improved Computational Methods for Determining Wind Pressures and Glass Thickness in Facades | p. 655 |
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