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Glass Structures

134GLST
Architecture and Construction

About this course

The course is intending to introduce the students the field of structural applications of glass and to give them some specific skills for calculation and detailing of for basic glass structures: panes beams and fins, columns and walls, point-supported glass, as well as for glazing systems such as glass facades, canopies and roofs, stairs and floors. On this purpose the properties of glass as structural material will be presented in comparison with other basic building materials, together with selected examples of glass/glazing applications. Design details and connecting technology, relevant technical regulations, specification and current methods applied in design will be described. Worked examples will accompany the lectures for better understanding, and design project will help to fix specific knowledge.

Learning outcomes

To learn material properties of glass and principal rules for design of glass structural members. To introduce basic ideas of design glass members and their connections.

Course requirements

no prerequisities

Resources

  • [1] Structural Use of Glass in Buildings (2nd edition): The Institution of Structural Engineers, 2014, ISBN 978-1-906335-25-0
  • [2] Nijsse R.: Glass in Structures, Birkhauser, 2003. ISBN 3-7643-6439-4
  • [3] Wurm J.: Glass Structures, Birkhauser, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-7608-6

Activities

Lectures and seminars

Additional information

  • Credits
    ECTS 2
  • Contact hours per week
    2
  • Instructors
    prof. Ing. Eliášová Martina CSc.
  • Mode of instruction
    Hybrid
If anything remains unclear, please check the FAQ of CTU (Czech Republic).

Offering(s)

  • Start date

    17 February 2025

    • Ends
      21 September 2025
    • Term *
      Summer 2024/2025
    • Instruction language
      English
    Enrolment period closed
These offerings are valid for students of EPFL (Switzerland)