Design of glass fin supported glass walls
Design of glass fin supported glass walls
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I'm wondering if there is any reference for how to design glass fin/steel rod supported walls. I have some background designing steel mast supported glass lites with spider connections, but not with these all glass type walls.
It seems Australian Code AS1288 addresses this; would I find typical construction details as well as design approaches in this reference? I haven't found any equivalent US references beyond ASTM 1300 which I believe only deals with out of plane loading for individual lites. Am I missing something?
I really appreciate any guidance.
It seems Australian Code AS1288 addresses this; would I find typical construction details as well as design approaches in this reference? I haven't found any equivalent US references beyond ASTM 1300 which I believe only deals with out of plane loading for individual lites. Am I missing something?
I really appreciate any guidance.





RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
AS1288 is available from saiglobal.com. I think it is about $250. 149 pages in the Standard and amendment, and 213 pages of thickness tables for the different types of glass with different wind loadings.
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
I spoke with my local glass guru who stated that he has only been around a couple of installations, the last was inside as part of an atrium. His company has never installed a system.
http://www.structuralglass.com/gfs.php
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
Dik
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
At this point what I'm wondering about is the design of the vertical tension rods. The fins obviously need to be designed for tension loads for positive wind loads, so are the rods empirically designed to tighten the assembly? Or are they for canopy loads?
Thanks again!
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls
I'm not entirely sure yet, either.
Basically instead of just silicon/fin mullions, there's a threaded rod embeded. I believe this would be to support a canopy, but it was a typical detail, not just at the canopy locations. I may come back and post a detail in the next week once I see if I will be involved in this or not.
In the meantime, do you know if the Australian code provisions are accepted in the US?
RE: Design of glass fin supported glass walls