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Table of Contents:
Introduction Basic glass and derived products 11 The material glass 13 Manufacturing the basic products 14 Sheet glass treatments 19 Further glass products Glasses for special requirements 21 Sound insulation 24 Safety, security 26 Fire protection 29 Thermal insulation and solar control Designing with glass 33 Optics and perception 38 Structural concepts 43 Vertical glazing 46 Glazing as a safety barrier 49 Overhead glazing 53 Glazing for foot traffic 54 Glazing for limited foot traffic 55 Safety of glass in circulation zones Constructing with glass 60 Clamp fixings 64 Drilled fixings 68 Bonded fixings Building legislation provisions 73 An overview of German legislation 74 Building products of glass 76 Forms of construction with glass 78 Non-regulated building products and forms of construction 81 Experimental tests for glass constructions Examples of the use of building with glass 83 Overview 84 Museum in Kansas City 86 Liesborn Abbey Museum 88 Mixed commercial and residential building in Aarau 90 Production building in Hettenshausen 92 Glass museum in Toledo 94 Overhead glazing to refectory and president's office at Technische Universitat Dresden 96 "Schubert Club Band Shell" concert pavilion in Minnesota 98 Glass staircase in Paris 100 Dutch embassy in Berlin Appendix 103 Glossary, standards and directives, bibliography, manufacturers and associations.

About the Author :
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Weller is a professor of structural theory and director of the Institute for Construction at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the TU Dresden (Dresden University of Technology). Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Stefan Unnewehr, Dipl.-Ing. Silke Tasche, and Dipl.-Ing. Kristina Harth are research associates at the Institute for Construction at the TU Dresden.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783034615716
  • Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Principles, Applications, Examples
  • ISBN-10: 303461571X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Dec 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 112


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