TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wurm, Jan
TI  - Glass structures : design and construction of self-supporting skins. Tr. by German into English Raymond Peat
SN  - 3764376082
U1  - 721.04496 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Basel
PB  - Birkhauser
KW  - Real astate
KW  - Glass construction
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - luchtverontreiniging
KW  - air pollution
KW  - kosten
KW  - costs
N1  - CONTENTS Foreword by Graham Dodd  5 Preface and Acknowledgments  6 1 INTRODUCTION 2 SPANS OF GLASS  17 2.1 FROM LEAFY ARBOUR TO CLIMATE SKIN - THE SEARCH FOR PARADISE18 Early period and Christian sacred architecture  19 The modern era  21 2.2 THE GLASS ROOF: FORM, FUNCTION AND CONSTRUCTION25 3 FLAT GLASS AS A CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL  33 3.1 PROPERTIES OF GLASS 34 Flat glass as a load-bearing material  36 Flat glass as a building skin material  39 3.2 BASIC GLASS - FLOAT GLASS, ROLLED GLASS AND DRAWN GLASS  45 Manufacturing processes  46 Implications for design and construction  48 Implications for building skins48 3.3 THE MECHANICAL PROCESSING OF GLASS - CUTTING, DRILLING AND GRINDING  49 3.4 THE THERMAL TREATMENT OF GLASS - TEMPERING, ENAMELLING, BENDING AND SURFACE TEXTURING54 Tempering  54 Enamelling and printing on glass  58 Thermal bending of glass  59 Texturing glass  62 3.5 LAYERING AND BONDING OF PANES: LAMINATED GLASS AND LAMINATED SAFETY GLASS 64 Manufacture and finishing  64 Implications for design and construction  66 Implications for the building skin  68 3.6 COATING THE PANES AND SEALING THE EDGES: INSULATING GLASS  72 Surface coatings  72 The build-up of insulating glass  75 Implications for design and construction  76 Implications for building skins  78 4 DESIGN AND CONNECTIONS  83 4.1 DESIGNING WITH GLASS84 Flat glass as a building skin and construction element  84 Connections  85 Design calculation procedures  89 4.2 THE USE OF GLASS PANES IN BUILDING SKINS94 Glazing types  95 Residual load-bearing capacity of panes  97 Connections  98 4.3 THE USE OF GLASS PLATES AND BEAMS IN STRUCTURES  104 Plates loaded in compression  104 Shear plates  105 Columns, glass fins and beams  108 Residual load-bearing capacity of glass  111 Connections  112 5 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS  119 5.1 OVERVIEW120 User demand profiles  125 5.2 SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING SKIN GEOMETRIES 128 The glass courtyard - the flat or inclined roof  128 The glass band - the curved or folded roof130 The glass core - the double-curved roof  132 6 GLASS STRUCTURES  137 6.1 FORMS OF LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURES IN FLAT GLASS 138 6.2 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS  140 Grid geometry  141 Redundancy: safety in non-hierarchical structures 144 The safe design of glass structures loaded in compression  146 Modules and planes of connection  148 6.3 LOAD-BEARING GLASS STRUCTURES 150 Beams and trusses  152 Plate structures  154 Cellular structures  160 7 PROJECTS  165 7.1 BACKGROUND OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS  166 7.2 THE GLASS COURTYARD - PLANAR LOAD-BEARING SYSTEMS 168 7.3 THE GLASS BAND - CURVED LOAD-BEARING SYSTEMS 210 7.4 THE GLASS CORE - DOUBLE-CURVED LOAD-BEARING SYSTEMS  226 8OUTLOOK  241 APPENDIX  249 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES  250 PICTURE CREDITS  253 PARTNERS 255
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