Fin Glass 6 PDF
Fin Glass 6 PDF
Fin Glass 6 PDF
I. General
To design adequate fin glass of a curtain wall meeting required criteria.
All units is in metric system.
1 Design Code
BS 8118 Part 1:1991:Structural Use of Aluminium. Code of Practice for design
ASCE 7-05 Min. Design Loads for Buildings and other Structures
2 Material used
4 Load Combination
1.0 Dead Load (for service ability check)
1.0 Wind Load (for service ability check)
1.2 Dead Load Wind Load
60 10
A-A
50
Rw
50
Rd
s= 120
400 Fin
300
Rw = 4.7325 kN
Glass panel size:
internal = 8 mm
air space = 1.5 mm 100
external = 8 mm
= 0.424 kPa
Fin glass: = 0.397 kPa
Dead load:
Rd1 = 3208.95 N
Rd2 = 1191.92 N
Rd = 4400.87 N
150
272 222
150 150
400