Environmental Conditions Effect for Adhesive Connections in Glass Structures

Abstract:

Load-bearing joints of glass structures belong to the one of new applications of adhesive connections in civil engineering. They provide several important benefits particularly even stress distribution along the contact depending on geometry and stiffness of the glue joint, which is crucial for brittle glass. There is a lack of knowledge about semi-flexible or semi-rigid adhesive connections in the structural glass field and durability is one of the essential properties that have to be assessed during design-process of bonded connection. An extensive research focused on shear glued joints in glass structures was performed at CTU in Prague, which also comprised environmental effect simulation on the glued specimens in laboratory accelerated conditions. The paper is dedicated to impact of ageing to the specimens and their mechanical properties together with brief overview of available laboratory ageing methods.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 827)
• Pages: 19-22
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.827.19
• Online since: February 2016
• Authors: Klára Machalická*, Martina Eliášová
• Keywords: Adhesive Connection, Artificial Ageing, Environmental Effect, Laboratory Ageing

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DOI: 10.47982/cgc.8.439