Sur le dimensionnement des structures en verre trempé

ABSTRACT This work deals with the use of glass as a real structural material, and concerns more particularly the detailed study of the potentiality of a connection by insertion of a steel dowel in a hole of a glass plate, in the aim of the making of long beams or beams with large inertia. The determination of the optimal geometry for such a connection passes first by the superposition of two stress states (the first one is generated by the thermal tempering and the second is due to the loading of the metallic connector in the plane of the glass plate). Then a design method ensuring the durability of the structure is proposed.