Publication detail

Some aspects of designing and numerical modelling of glass railing exposed to impact load

PEŠEK, O. MELCHER, J.

Original Title

Some aspects of designing and numerical modelling of glass railing exposed to impact load

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

In recent architecture glass is widely used structural material of facades, walls, roof, stairs and other applications. Glass as a material is popular for its transparency, but it need to be carefully analysed for its fracture behaviour. This paper deals with some aspects of numerical modelling and designing of all-glass railings acting as cantilever element fixed at the bottom edge and with a handrail on the top edge. In the frame of study, number of different glass railings models were analysed to find out the best way how to simulate glass railing imposed to the impact load. The impact load is in most cases decisive load case acting on that type of structure. Variable parameters entering the analysis are the aspect ratio of glass railing pane, impact intensity, impact member hardness and finite element meshing. Finite element analysis of 250 models was performed in ANSYS Workbench.

Keywords

Impact load, numerical modelling, pendulum test, railing, structural glass

Authors

PEŠEK, O.; MELCHER, J.

Released

19. 1. 2022

Publisher

VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Location

Ostrava

ISBN

1804-4824

Periodical

Transactions of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series

Year of study

21

Number

2

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

73

Pages to

79

Pages count

7

URL

http://tces.vsb.cz/Home/ArticleDetail/826

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/203352

BibTex

@article{BUT176016,
  author="Ondřej {Pešek} and Jindřich {Melcher}",
  title="Some aspects of designing and numerical modelling of glass railing exposed to impact load",
  journal="Transactions of the VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, Civil Engineering Series",
  year="2022",
  volume="21",
  number="2",
  pages="73--79",
  doi="10.35181/tces-2021-0017",
  issn="1804-4824",
  url="http://tces.vsb.cz/Home/ArticleDetail/826"
}