Abstract: ASTM E 1300-07 employs only two glass type factors to adjust the load resistance of annealed glass for heat treatment, one factor for heat-strengthened glass and one factor for tempered glass. The use of only two factors ...

Abstract: Currently, the ASTM design methodology to determine the load resistance of annealed window glass incorporates a probability distribution to model glass load resistance. A probability of 8 lites per 1,000 broken at the first ...

Abstract: This study investigated the effects of inorganic silicone coatings on the load resistance of heat treated glass beams. The authors performed destructive load tests on 192 heat treated glass beams divided into 6 samples. ...

Abstract: Data were studied from tests of new and weathered rectangular annealed glass samples, each consisting of numerous specimens, loaded to fracture. The maximum principal tensile stress at the fracture origin was compared with ...

Abstract: The authors performed an experimental study with weathered fully tempered monolithic glass loaded to failure under controlled conditions. The 14 specimens in the study originated from the northeastern United States. The ...

Abstract: The observation that spandrel glass with ceramic frit has experienced thermal breakage in several buildings has called into question the ability of heat-treated (HT) glass with ceramic frit to resist fracture induced by ...

Abstract: Architectural glazing designers in the United States and many other parts of the world use prescriptive methods to determine the load resistance (LR) of glazing and glazing constructions in buildings based on a probabilistic ...

Abstract: Laminated glass consists of at least two monolithic glass lites bonded together by an elastomeric interlayer. Existing mathematical models using the finite-difference method or the nine-node quadrilateral finite-element ...

Abstract: Model building codes and standards in the United States find their bases in a probabilistic model of glass load resistance (LR). In general, architectural flat glass design predicated on these model building codes and ...

Abstract: Designers of architectural glass in the United States rely on model building codes and standards for definitions of load resistance (LR) and other factors pertinent to design. Unfortunately, US model building codes and ...