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Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe
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Page 1: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe

Page 2: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures

Page 3: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Glass= a load bearing material

Page 4: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Laminated glass is a transparent structure with safe failure behaviour

Glass beam with a length exceeding the standard maximum size of a window pane (6x3.21 meters)

Page 5: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

How is it made?Overlapping glass segments

Page 6: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Outermost glass

Page 7: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Laminated glass

Page 8: Due to its brittleness, glass seems unsafe Increasing demand for transparent buildings and structures.

Safety balustrade

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A glass pane with heating strips . The power supply of the different groups is provided sequentially .


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