Description:
There are two things everybody knows about glass: it is transparent, and it breaks! These are also the properties that constitute the challenge of glass as an architectural and structural material.This book presents papers from the third Challenging Glass Conference (CGC3), held at the Technical University (TU) Delft, the Netherlands, in June 2012. The conference brings together glass engineering, research and design specialists. Papers are grouped under seven topic headings: project and case studies; joints, fixings and adhesives; strength, stability and safety (a category which includes a quarter of all the papers presented at the conference); laminates and composite design; curved and bended glass; architectural design and lighting and finally, glass in facades.Glass remains one of the most exciting materials available to designers and architects today. This book will be of interest to all those involved in working with glass in an architectural and structural context.
Title Page -- Foreword -- Sponsors, Support & Partners -- Contents -- Keynote papers -- Light in the Public Realm -- Emotion -- Fusing Design, Innovation and Light -- Engineering Invention in Glass Architecture -- Case Study 1 World Trade Center - Podium Wall Design Development -- Projects & Case studies -- The Glass Screens of the Japan Post Tower -- The Glass Sphinx: A Massive Stacked Glass Sculpture -- The Apple Glass Cube: Version 2.0 -- Future Application of Structural Use of Glass -- A Laminated Glass Wall Will Protect Warnemunde From High Water -- Lincoln Center Canopies - Performance in Glass -- Project for the Eiffel Tower: Constructive Geometry -- Challenges in the Design, Fabrication and Installation of Glass Structures Comprising of Super Jumbo Glass Sheets -- Glass Walls Carrying the Roof and Withstanding the Wind Load on the Facade: Conservatory of the Museum in Dordrecht and Raaks Glass Cube in Haarlem -- Inclined Glass Fins for the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture -- Design of Suspended Glass Ceiling Structure in High Sesimic Hazard Zones -- Designing a Glass Pavillion to Protect an Ancient Greek Temple -- A True All-Glass Staircase -- Two Lines - Arup with David Chipperfield Architects -- Torre Iberdrola, Bilbao, Spain -- Joints, Fixings & Adhesives -- Experimental Investigation of Unconventional Canopy Prototypes, Suspended by Adhesive Bonds -- Connecting Through Reinforcement - Experimental Analysis of a Glass Connection Using Perforated Steel Plates -- Determination of Adhesives Properties for Non-linear Numerical Simulation of Structural Steel-Glass Connections -- Shear Capacity in Adhesive Glass Joints -- Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Edge Seal Spacers of Insulated Glass Units for Structural Sealant Glazing Applications -- Tensile Loading of Silicone Point Supports - Revisited.