Papers

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  • The Great Spandrel Glass Debate

    • Paper by Richard Green SE PE P.Eng CPEng IntPE APEC Engineer M.ASCE M.IEAust, Principal / Owner
    As we change the rules of thermal performance for facades, we are changing the conditions the glass is subject to in shadow boxes and glazed spandrel…

  • Consistency In Glass Design

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Grace Dojan, Graduate Student
    Glass structural elements have become increasingly common to the point of ubiquity; however, there currently is no universally recognized and…

  • A Structural Glass Design Manual

    • Paper by Richard Green PE SE P.Eng CPEng IntPE(Aust) APEC Engineer · Terrence McDonnell S.E., P.E., P.Eng., SECB · Andrew Crosby BASc, P.Eng., LEED® AP BD+C

    Other than limited special cases, there is a lack of standards providing guidance on the design of structural glass. This has resulted in an ad-hoc

  • Glass Balustrade Design

    • Paper by Richard Green, PE, SE, P.Eng, CPEng IntPE(Aust), APEC Engineer · Andrew Crosby, PEng · Terrence McDonnell S.E., P.E., P.Eng., SECB

    Glass handrail design in the United States lags behind best practice in other parts of the world. There can be as much as a factor of four (4)

  • Determination of Surface Flaw Parameters for Annealed and Fully Tempered Glass Exposed to NaCl

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami, PhD, Senior Facade Engineer Joshua Schultz, PhD, PE, LEED AP, Associate Professor Patrick Ferro, PhD, PE, MBA, Professor Stephen M Morse, PhD, PE, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
    The use of glass in the exterior facades provides greater light transmission into the building and improved views for occupants. Coastal areas in…

  • Advanced Simulation for Thermal Stress Assessment

    • Paper by Andrea Zani · Jamie Reyes · Guido Lori · Jacob Hanke · Giacomo Zangiacomi

    In recent years, the desire for increased performance, transparency and visual flatness of glazing elements in curtain walls has generated renewed

  • Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place featured image

    Case Study: Renovation of Fountain Place

    • Paper by Alfonso Lopez P.E., Principal and CEO David Dunham P.E, Director of Business Development Diarmuid Kelleher P.E., S.E., Director of Engineering
    Fountain Place is a project that exemplifies the latest technology and applications in building skin design and jumbo structural glass applications,…

  • Insulating Glass Unit Gas Loss

    • Paper by Mark K. Schmidt, M.Eng., S.E. · Stephen M. Morse, PhD, P.E.

    Concerns over time-dependent argon permeation through the perimeter edge seals of insulating glass units (IGUs) led the authors to utilize two

  • Comparison of Historical Weathered Annealed Glass Failure Data to ASTM E1300

    • Paper by Nabhajit Goswami; Student, ngoswami@mtu.edu Stephen M Morse; Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Michigan Tech University, smmorse@mtu.edu
    Historical published weathered annealed failure data consisting of 13 samples were collected and glass failure prediction model surface flaw…
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    Control Tower Glass Design

    • Paper by Daniel McCormick, P.E., PMP, M.ASCE, Federal Aviation Administration Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE, Assistant Professor Scott H. Norville, Ph.D., P.E., F.FTI, F.ASTM, F.ASCE, Professor
    ASTM published the first version of ASTM E2461-05: Standard Practice for Determining the Thickness of Glass in Airport Traffic Control Tower Cabs in…

  • Fixed Edge Supports

    • Paper by James G. Soules, Ph.D., P.E., S.E., P.Eng., SECB, F.SEI, F.ASCE · Stephen M. Morse, Ph.D., P.E., M.ASCE · Scott H. Norville, P.E., Ph.D.

    Model building codes and standards in the United States use a probabilistic model to define glass load resistance (LR). In general, these model

  • Addressing Embodied Carbon

    • Paper by Helen Sanders, PhD · Adam Nizich

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector is critical to limiting global temperature rise to less than 1.5⁰C. Construction and

  • Advances in Laminated Glass Engineering

    • Paper by Richard Green PE (WA, NY, TX, CO, OR, MT), M.IEAUST CPEng, NER(Aus), APEC Engineer, IntPE(Aus), RBP(Vic)

    The stability of monolithic glass fins is reasonably well defined; as an elastic material it behaves in a similar manner to other elastic materials

  • Advances in Effective Thickness

    • Paper by Adam J Nizich, P.E. · Andrea M. La Greca, P.E. · Laura Galuppi, PhD

    Effective thickness is a simplified method for the structural evaluation of laminated glass section properties. The method consists of defining the

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    • Paper by Roman Schieber · Thorsten Helbig

    Steven Holl Architects designed two new buildings in the Museum District in Houston, Texas. Knippers Helbig is the facade consultant of both

  • Glass Strength Under Point Loading

    • Paper by Joshua Schultz, Ph.D, P.E., LEED AP, ENV SP · John Knowles, PE SE · Kedar Malusare

    Structural glass is used in a range of building applications, and while the ASTM E1300 has recently been updated to provide a design method to

  • Designing Structural Laminated Glass

    • Paper by Vaughn Schauss

    Laminated glass with standard PVB has long been used for safety and security due to its ability to adhere the broken glass fragments together. As the

  • Adaptive Facades

    • Paper by Walter Haase · Werner Sobek · Enrica Oliva · Michele Andaloro

    Facade engineering aims at appropriately balancing the demands imposed by the context and the capabilities inherent to the materials, the geometries