Automated Design and Analysis of Reinforced and Post-Tensioned Glass Shells
Luigi Malomo, ISTI-CNR Maurizio Froli, DESTEC-University of Pisa Paolo Cignoni, ISTI-CNR Shells made of structural glass are beautiful objects from both the aesthetics and the engineering point of view. However, they pose two significant challenges. The first one is to assure adequate safety and redundancy concerning possible global collapse. Being single-layered, in a shell made of structural glass, the brittle cracking of a single pane can lead to a sudden propagation of failure, up to instability. The second one is to guarantee cheap replacing possibilities for potentially collapsed com...
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