The development of new adhesives has allowed to expand the application of bonding into
the most diverse industrial fields. This review article presents the commonly used …

Adaptive facades are increasingly used in modern buildings, where they can take the form of
complex systems and manifest their adaptivity in several ways. Adaptive envelopes must …

Any reliable use of glass for structural purposes cannot neglect that its breakage may be
provoked by imponderable events, like impacts at critical spots or thermal shocks …

Reinforcement strategies have been developed to prevent catastrophic failures of glass
structures after cracking. In this context, the composite action between glass and …

The use of hybrid and composite solutions for structural applications represents a common
approach for the development of safe design principles. Consolidated examples exist for …

Wood is one of the most popular renewable natural materials. Nowadays, raw wood is
hardly ever used in the construction industry. It has been substituted by glued laminated …

Laminated and hybrid glass systems are typically realized by bonding or joining together
several structural components and materials. Their structural performance and safe design …

Taking advantage of two full-scale experimental tests carried out on square hollow glass
columns under low velocity impacts, the paper aims to further assess via Finite Element …

Laminated glass components are usually realized by bonding glass plates using interlayer
polymers that develop adhesion forces during lamination. Recently, these adhesion forces …

The bending performance of laminated glass (LG) beams with Glass-Fibre-Reinforced-
Polymer (GFRP)-embedded rods is numerically assessed in this paper, based on earlier …