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Experimental investigation on timber-glass composite I-beams

Kozlowski, Marcin ; Serrano, Erik LU orcid and Enquist, Bertil (2014) Challenging Glass 4 & COST Action TU0905 Final Conference
Abstract
<p>Timber-glass composite I-beams were manufactured and tested in bending to failure. The glass web of the I-beam was adhesively bonded to the timber flanges using three different adhesives: Epoxy, Acrylate and Silicone. For the webs two types of 8 mm thick glass were used: annealed float and heat heat-strengthened glass. Before testing the beams with heat-strengthened glass, the residual-stress profile through the thickness of the glass panels was measured using a portable scattered light polariscope SCALP. The results show that the beam stiffness was similar for the acrylate and epoxy-bonded beams, despite the difference in adhesive stiffness. The beams bonded with the silicone adhesive showed approximately 25% lower stiffness. In... (More)
<p>Timber-glass composite I-beams were manufactured and tested in bending to failure. The glass web of the I-beam was adhesively bonded to the timber flanges using three different adhesives: Epoxy, Acrylate and Silicone. For the webs two types of 8 mm thick glass were used: annealed float and heat heat-strengthened glass. Before testing the beams with heat-strengthened glass, the residual-stress profile through the thickness of the glass panels was measured using a portable scattered light polariscope SCALP. The results show that the beam stiffness was similar for the acrylate and epoxy-bonded beams, despite the difference in adhesive stiffness. The beams bonded with the silicone adhesive showed approximately 25% lower stiffness. In terms of load bearing capacity, the beams made using heat-strengthened glass were approximately 50% stronger than the beams made using annealed float, for the epoxy and acrylate adhesive. Using the silicone adhesive, the increase was approximately 20%.</p> (Less)
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Challenging Glass 4- Structural Glass-Novel design methods and next generation products
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Taylor & Francis
conference name
Challenging Glass 4 & COST Action TU0905 Final Conference
conference location
Lausanne, Switzerland
conference dates
2014-02-06 - 2014-02-07
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ISBN
978-1-138-00164-0
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English
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  abstract     = {{&lt;p&gt;Timber-glass composite I-beams were manufactured and tested in bending to failure. The glass web of the I-beam was adhesively bonded to the timber flanges using three different adhesives: Epoxy, Acrylate and Silicone. For the webs two types of 8 mm thick glass were used: annealed float and heat heat-strengthened glass. Before testing the beams with heat-strengthened glass, the residual-stress profile through the thickness of the glass panels was measured using a portable scattered light polariscope SCALP. The results show that the beam stiffness was similar for the acrylate and epoxy-bonded beams, despite the difference in adhesive stiffness. The beams bonded with the silicone adhesive showed approximately 25% lower stiffness. In terms of load bearing capacity, the beams made using heat-strengthened glass were approximately 50% stronger than the beams made using annealed float, for the epoxy and acrylate adhesive. Using the silicone adhesive, the increase was approximately 20%.&lt;/p&gt;}},
  author       = {{Kozlowski, Marcin and Serrano, Erik and Enquist, Bertil}},
  booktitle    = {{Challenging Glass 4- Structural Glass-Novel design methods and next generation products}},
  isbn         = {{978-1-138-00164-0}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Taylor & Francis}},
  title        = {{Experimental investigation on timber-glass composite I-beams}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}