Engineering Glass Structures

Comprehensive textbook with chapters on materials, structural design and construction Written by well-known experts in the field with a broad international network Provides an up-to date comprehensive overview on the material glass and its products Provides the basis for glass design for practitioners, based on the latest developments in Eurocode Provides detailed and practical information on glass assemblies and other materials that are used in conjunction with glass in façade construction and other engineering applications

Jan Belis is Full Professor at Ghent University (Belgium). His research focuses on structural applications of glass in buildings. Johannes Kuntsche is Professor of Structural Analysis and Mechanics at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on laminated glass and polymers in building applications. Christian Louter is Professor of Structural Design & Building Engineering at TU Delft. His research focuses on safety and sustainability aspects of glass in structures and facades. Jens Henrik Nielsen is currently a leading FE specialist in COWI A/S. Before that he was a researcher at the Technical University of Denmark for more than 15 years with a focus on the structural use of glass and advanced numerical modeling techniques. Mauro Overend is Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), where he founded ReStruct, a multi-disciplinary teaching and research group exploring the sustainable use of glass and other architectural material. Frank Schneider is Deputy Head of the State Materials Testing Institute Darmstadt (MPA) in the competence field “Glass.” His work focuses on material testing and structural applications of glass. Jens Schneider is Rector of TU Wien and Professor at the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design at TU Darmstadt. Sebastian Schula is a publicly appointed and sworn expert for glass and a partner at SGS GmbH, an office for façade engineering. His expertise includes structural glazing, structural façade analysis, façade assessment, and quality assurance. He also lectures on glass construction.

Material Properties of Glass and Associated Polymers.- Monolithic Glass.- Multilayer Glass.- Mechanical Fundamentals for Glass Engineering.- Strength of Annealed Glass.- Pre-stressed Glass.- Mechanical Connections.- Adhesive Connections.- Glass Design Aspects.- Maintenance and Forensics.