Plate shell structures of glass

A shell structure of glass combines a highly effective structural principle the shell with a material of unique aesthetic qualities glass. Glass is often used as cladding material in lattice shell structures, where a spatial grid of bars and nodes constitutes the primary load bearing structure. Research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, has shown the existence of a type of facetted shell structure, where the facets themselves constitute the load bearing system the plate shell structure. The present work, done at the Technical University of Denmark, looks at the structural behaviour of plate shell structures, particularly with facets of glass. Guidelines for the structural design of plate shells are drawn up.

Auteur

Anne Bagger obtained her M.Sc. in civil engineering in 2001 from the Technical University of Denmark. In 2010 she finished her Ph.D. in load carrying glass structures from the same university. She has been employed as a consulting engineer, and as postdoc in optimized structures. Anne now runs her own company, working with glass structures.