Textiles and Fabrics for Enhanced Structural Glass Facades: Potentials and Challenges

The use of textiles in architecture can cover a wide set of solutions and functions, spanning from buildings, towards geotechnical, aeronautic or automotive fields, etc. Special applications involve textiles in the health care or dressing scenarios. A multitude of other functions can then be found relatively for the use of textiles in building engineering and facades. As far as traditional facades or roofs composed of glass are taken into account, textiles offer a relevant number of potential uses that are specifically focused on energy, acoustic, insulation and even structural goals, in addition to pure architectural objectives. It is known that glass is relatively versatile, but has intrinsic needs and thermo-physical and mechanical features that require dedicated design methods, towards safe design purposes. Glass itself, in the form of constructional material, cannot be directly compared to other consolidated solutions for buildings. The same concept applies to textiles, and to their use to enhance other building components. Besides the key advantages deriving from the use of textiles in glass facades and envelopes—in the form of light, thermal or acoustic insulation, or energy efficiency—special care must be spent for specific structural requirements and performances. In some cases, textiles can in fact offer enhanced resistance to ordinary glass structures. In other conditions, textiles in combination with glass can ensure also enhanced acoustic and thermal performances. A multidisciplinary design approach able to properly fit several objectives should be considered. This paper aims at exploring the actual knowledge on glass textiles, with a focus on available tools and research trends, with careful consideration for structural glass facade applications.

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Structural Glass Systems under Fire: Overview of Design Issues, Experimental Research, and Developments

Advances in Civil Engineering ◽

10.1155/2017/2120570 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Chiara Bedon

Keyword(s):

Architectural Design ◽

Constructional Material ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Structural Glass ◽

Design Concepts ◽

High Rise ◽

Standard Glass ◽

Load Carrying ◽

Actual Design ◽

Thermal Phenomena

Architectural design concepts incorporating glass beams, panels, or generally load-carrying elements and stiffeners for buildings, claddings, windows, and partitions are largely considered in modern high-rise constructions. A multitude of aspects, including motivations related to transparency, aesthetics, illumination, and energy conservation, progressively increased the use and interest for such a still rather innovative constructional material. However, compared to other traditional materials for buildings, standard glass is typically characterized by brittle behaviour and limited tensile resistance. The intrinsic properties of glass, moreover, together with typically limited thickness-to-size ratios for glazing elements, or the mutual interaction of glass components with adjacent constructional elements as a part of full assemblies they belong (i.e., fixing systems, sealants, etc.), as well as the combination of mechanical and thermal phenomena, make glass structures highly vulnerable. Special safety design rules are hence required, especially under extreme loading conditions. In this review paper, a state of the art on structural glass systems exposed to fire is presented. Careful consideration is paid for actual design methods and general regulations, as well as for existing research outcomes—both at the material and assembly levels—giving evidence of current challenges, issues, and developments.

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Glass Columns under Impact - Experimental and Numerical Analyses

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.755.82 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 755 ◽

pp. 82-89

Author(s):

Chiara Bedon ◽

Roman Kalamar ◽

Martina Eliášová

Keyword(s):

Bearing Capacity ◽

Numerical Models ◽

Construction Materials ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Full Scale ◽

Structural Glass ◽

Load Bearing Capacity ◽

Load Bearing ◽

Glass Columns ◽

Traditional Construction

Compared to traditional construction materials, structural glass members subjected to main compression are relatively unusual in buildings, despite a substantially high material compressive strength. The major limit for the use of glass columns is in fact represented by an overall residual load-bearing capacity highly affected by the tensile brittle fracture of glass. An optimal and fail-safe design approach, in this regard, should take care of a multitude of geometrical and mechanical aspects, including boundary details and possible defects, as well as accidental loading scenarios. Aiming to assess the feasibility and vulnerability of structural glass members, based on earlier research efforts, the paper deals on the load-bearing performance of a reference set of full-scale glass columns. Careful consideration is in fact paid for the experimental investigation of glass members with square hollow cross-section and subjected to dynamic impacts, being representative of an accidental loading scenario. Full-scale experimental results are presented, as well as further considered for validation and calibration of Finite Element (FE) numerical models accounting for possible damage propagation in all the structural components, hence allowing to assess the residual load-bearing capacity of the examined structural typology.

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Traditional and Innovative Materials for Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.678.14 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 678 ◽

pp. 14-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Anna Laura Pisello ◽

Veronica Lucia Castaldo ◽

Federica Rosso ◽

Cristina Piselli ◽

Marco Ferrero ◽

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Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Solar Radiation ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Building Envelope ◽

Research Trends ◽

Acoustic Insulation ◽

Wide Issue ◽

Innovative Materials ◽

Wide Perspective ◽

Passive Techniques

This chapter shows the most recent and innovative contributions and research trends arounbd the wide issue of energy efficiency in buildings by means of passive techniques, such as new effective materials for building envelope optimization. In particular, cool materials will be dealt with by considering their capability to keep a surface cooler than other solutions when exposed to solar radiation. Then multifunctional materials such as thermal and acoustic insulation panels will be analyzed. Finbally, natural and biobased solutions for energy saving will be investigated. Each one of these topics will be studied by elaborating a first general assessment of each technique and then by analyzing the most recent contributions and research trends in order to provide a wide perspective of the question that is going to be addressed in this chapter.

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The Research on Organizational Justice in Scopus Indexed Journals: A Bibliometric Analysis of Seven Decades

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647845 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Irfan Sheeraz ◽

Ungku Norulkamar Ungku Ahmad ◽

Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq ◽

Muhammad Sarfraz ◽

Khalil Md. Nor

Keyword(s):

Organizational Justice ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Academic Discipline ◽

Organizational Trust ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Research Trends ◽

Citizenship Behavior ◽

Publication Trends ◽

Justice Research ◽

Advance Knowledge

The organizational justice terminology has had a long journey to become one of the significant contributors to organizational success. Recently, an intense global upsurge in the use of organizational justice terms in publications has forced us for this bibliometric analysis in order to look at the overall publications on organizational justice. The objective of the current research is to advance knowledge about organizational justice research trends using Scopus database and bibliometric analysis research. The analysis was performed to see the publication trends between the years 1941 and 2018; it used authors, journals, countries, academic discipline, research institutes/universities, and various keywords related to organizational justice as search words. After careful consideration and using multiple checkpoints for eliminating irrelevant studies, 5,650 research articles were analyzed. In the realm of organizational justice, procedural justice was the most frequently occurred among other dimensions. Moreover, variables such as organizational trust, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, citizenship behavior, ethics, and turnover are major concepts that occurred within organizational justice research. Some variables with infrequent occurrences, along with future recommendations and study limitations, are also discussed.

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