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SUMMARY:Fragile yet Ductile – Structural Aspects of Reinforced Glass Bea
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DESCRIPTION:Christian Louter \nFragile yet Ductile! During this seminar Ch
 ristian Louter will present the content of his dissertation entitled ‘Fr
 agile yet Ductile – Structural Aspects of Reinforced Glass Beams’\, wh
 ich he defended cum laude at the TU Delft on the 18th of April 2011. The d
 issertation investigates the structural aspects of reinforced glass beams.
  The concept of these beams\, which are intended for building applications
 \, is to provide redundancy even if the glass is broken. This redundancy i
 s obtained through a small reinforcement section that is bonded at the ten
 sile edge of the glass beam. Upon glass failure the reinforcement section 
 bridges the crack and carries the tensile forces over the crack\, thereby 
 creating a post-breakage load-carrying mechanism.  Various parameters that
  may influence the structural performance of the reinforced glass beams ar
 e experimentally investigated in this dissertation\, namely: bond system\,
  temperature\, thermal cycling\, humidity\, load duration\, reinforcement 
 material\, reinforcement percentage and beam size. This is done by means o
 f pull-out tests\, to investigate the pull-out strength of the reinforceme
 nt\, and by means of bending tests\, to investigate the structural respons
 e of the reinforced glass beams.  Furthermore\, analytical and numerical i
 nvestigations are performed into the modelling of the structural response 
 of reinforced glass beams. The analytical model has been developed in this
  research in analogy with reinforced concrete. The numerical model makes u
 se of a novel sequentially linear analyses (SLA) scheme and saw-tooth redu
 ction diagrams to simulate cracking of the glass and yielding of the reinf
 orcement and to describe the overall structural response of the beams.   T
 he dissertation can be downloaded at the repository of the TU Delft\, thro
 ugh the following link: http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A153751
 37-d9f6-456d-a4de-df14d167a2d2/ 
LOCATION:GC B3 424
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