Print Email Facebook Twitter The bearable lightness of all glass structures Title The bearable lightness of all glass structures Author Nijsse, R. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Date 2015-05-13 Abstract This paper is new developments in structural engineering related especially to the use of the material glass. After a philosophical discussion about why glass is the material for the Future, all glass elements and related techniques are presented from which an all glass building can be assembled. To conclude this paper ,all glass structures like a glass bridge, glass columns, a glass brick wall and a corrugated glass faced are shown in realised projects. Subject glass structuressustainabilityinnovation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:892aa04c-32ec-4074-9b32-52c3398326cf Publisher IABSE ISBN 978-3-85748-138-3 Source IABSE Conference: Elegance in Structures, Nara, Japan, 13-15 May 2015; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 317335.pdf 1.44 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:892aa04c-32ec-4074-9b32-52c3398326cf/datastream/OBJ/view