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Selection of Vertical Beam of Glass Facade Structure

Demands and wishes placed on designers of metal structures by investors or clients are more and more of an aesthetic nature. For this reason, design, as a technical criterion for selection of a technical solution of the product, especially when the product is a glass facade structure of a tourist facility, takes a larger share in technical evaluation of products. Answer to solving this problem lies in the abstraction and finding solution between requirements and wishes with all the other technical criteria for selecting a technical solution of the product. This includes the necessary functionality, exploitability, technology and simultaneously contributing to the protection and preservation of the environment. It is a priority to achieve a functional product design that, along with economic validation, represents the optimal variant of the product. In this paper, process of selecting the load-bearing metal structure, primarily main vertical support of the glass facade structure, with respect to the above selection criteria, is presented. Also, for determined loads, a static calculation of the metal structure for selected materials is presented, in accordance with valid Eurocodes. The load-bearing profiles are dimensioned and the stable design of the selected system solution of the glass facade structure is presented. Results are presented for this system solution, in particular, the impact of different types of profiles on metal structure and its thermal features. Accordingly, the appropriate energy efficiency class is related to metal structure. Specialized programs, Schuco Statik and SchuCal +, and results of authorized institutions laboratory tests are used in this paper.

Metal Construction, Glass Facade, Vertical Beam, Thermal Features, Statics

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