Advances in the Use of Structural Glass

This paper focuses on three key areas in the design and use of glass as a structuralmaterial, illustrating these areas with the use of Apple Store Upper West Side as acase study: 1. Introduction to the structural principles required to design transparentstructures; 2. The design of large glass structures, from concept through designdevelopment to final details, from global structural models to local stresses inconnections; 3. The variations in structural capacity of glass with changes in loadduration, methods of load application and location of high stresses