In-plane racking performance of point fixed glass façade systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 353-358
Author(s):  
S Sivanerupan ◽  
J Wilson ◽  
E Gad ◽  
N Lam
Keyword(s):  
Glass Facade ◽  
Glass Façade

scholarly journals Architectural and engineering principles and innovations in the construction of glass-facade buildings

Vestnik MGSU ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Plotnikov
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Quantum Leap ◽  
Glass Facade ◽  
The Given ◽  
General Opinion ◽  
Glass Façade ◽  
Construction Practice

Though the technologies are dynamically developing and there are a lot of research projects, there is still no general opinion on a glass-facade building among the European scientific community, architects and construction engineers. The increasing requirements to heat-protective qualities of translucent structures make us think of the necessity of a quantum leap both in technologies and in principal approaches to the development of architectural and constructive solutions of translucent shells. Together with economical features, the dynamics of heat-protective indicators’ increase show the tendencies to reaching the possibilities limits of mass glass units. The European construction practice usually solve this problem by developing sealed insulating glass units and by different conceptual solutions of the systems of translucent double facades. In the given article the basic theoretical principles and innovative engineering ideas are formulated dealing with the modern glass-facade building construction. “Green Building” conception is analyzed as a European new building philosophy.

scholarly journals Design and Experiment of a Novel Façade Cleaning Robot with a Biped Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunsuke Nansai ◽  
Keichi Onodera ◽  
Prabakaran Veerajagadheswar ◽  
Mohan Rajesh Elara ◽  
Masami Iwase
Keyword(s):  
Polynomial Interpolation ◽  
Area Coverage ◽  
Glass Panel ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Cleaning Robot ◽  
Glass Panels ◽  
Glass Facade ◽  
Cleaning Robots ◽  
Real Scenario ◽  
Glass Façade

Façade cleaning in high-rise buildings has always been considered a hazardous task when carried out by labor forces. Even though numerous studies have focused on the development of glass façade cleaning systems, the available technologies in this domain are limited and their performances are broadly affected by the frames that connect the glass panels. These frames generally act as a barrier for the glass façade cleaning robots to cross over from one glass panel to another, which leads to a performance degradation in terms of area coverage. We present a new class of façade cleaning robot with a biped mechanism that is able overcome these obstacles to maximize its area coverage. The developed robot uses active suction cups to adhere to glass walls and adopts mechanical linkage to navigate the glass surface to perform cleaning. This research addresses the design challenges in realizing the developed robot. Its control system consists of inverse kinematics, a fifth polynomial interpolation, and sequential control. Experiments were conducted in a real scenario, and the results indicate that the developed robot achieves significantly higher coverage performance by overcoming both negative and positive obstacles in a glass panel.

Analysis and experimental studies of building glass facade

2004 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 162-166
Author(s):  
Ján Bujňák ◽  
Jaroslav Odrobiňák
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Building Glass ◽  
Glass Facade ◽  
Glass Façade
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