BELIS, Jan; DE CLEEN, Bram; VERWIMP, Frank; DELINCE, Didier; VAN IMPE, Rudy(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2010-01-26)
the technology exists to melt and fuse certain glass types into astonishing shapes.
Transforming this technology to the scale of building components would create an
innovative tool with a high architectural potential.
However, ...
Often a crucial place in glass design is the point of load introduction where a high in-plane
compression load is introduced in the glass. In this case, the common hypothesis that glass fails when the tensile stresses ...