Format:
1 online resource (114 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783034615716
Note:
Intro -- Introduction -- Basic glass and derived products -- The material glass -- Manufacturing the basic products -- Sheet glass treatments -- Further glass products -- Glasses for special requirements -- Sound insulation -- Safety, security -- Fire protection -- Thermal insulation and solar control -- Designing with glass -- Optics and perception -- Structural concepts -- Vertical glazing -- Glazing as a safety barrier -- Overhead glazing -- Glazing for foot traffic -- Glazing for limited foot traffic -- Safety of glass in circulation zones -- Constructing with glass -- Clamp fixings -- Drilled fixings -- Bonded fixings -- Building legislation provisions -- An overview of German legislation -- Building products of glass -- Forms of construction with glass -- Non-regulated building products and forms of construction -- Experimental tests for glass constructions -- Examples of the use of building with glass -- Overview -- Museum in Kansas City -- Liesborn Abbey Museum -- Mixed commercial and residential building in Aarau -- Production building in Hettenshausen -- Glass museum in Toledo -- Overhead glazing to refectory and president's office at Technische Universität Dresden -- "Schubert Club Band Shell" concert pavilion in Minnesota -- Glass staircase in Paris -- Dutch embassy in Berlin -- Appendix -- Glossary, standards and directives, bibliography, manufacturers and associations -- Index -- Picture credits
Additional Edition:
Print version Weller, Bernhard Glass in Building Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2009 ISBN 9783034601320
Language:
English
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