Use of timber as a construction material has entered a period of renaissance since the
development of high-performance engineered wood products, enabling larger and taller …

Laminated glass, a composite made by bonding glass plies with polymeric interlayers, can
maintain a significant load bearing capacity even when glass is broken, because of the …

In contemporary architecture, the use of the glass curtain walls is increasingly growing.
However, after experiencing earthquake motions, they have sometime shown damage …

Glazed curtain walls are façade systems frequently chosen in modern architecture for mid
and high-rise buildings. From recent earthquakes surveys it is observed the large …

We extend, to the case of equibiaxial states of stress, the variational approach originally
proposed by Hashin for the analysis of cracked three-layer laminates under uniaxial tensile …

Nowadays, a renewed momentum on the use of timber material is ensured by the
development of high performing engineered wood products, which enables larger and taller …

The idea of the present study is to determine the performance of timber-glass hybrid shear
wall exposed to monotone and cyclic horizontal in-plane load at the level of story height …

Structural glass combined with a timber frame is a composite system that has a
predisposition for good behavior during an earthquake, it is energy-efficient and cost …

The trend of renewing buildings and providing new housing, public and other areas without
using new building lots is becoming increasingly important. A frequent situation in building …

Laminated glass is widely used for façades in commercial and residential buildings. Special
attention must be paid for such buildings when located on the earthquake prone areas. As …