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Architects in recent times have placed a high demand on the use of glass as a structural element due to its desirable property of transparency. In particular, the design and construction of glass walls. In order to support these walls, and satisfy transparency requirements, toughened glass fins are used. A main concern in glass fin design is the problem of buckling. Unfortunately, the Australian Standard used in the design of these fins (AS1288) to prevent buckling is insufficient as it limits fin design to only a few very specific possibilities. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the design methods set out in AS1288 and compare them to a model using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). In order to do a comparison between the two models, a selection fin sizes were used for a buckling analysis. Three fin thicknesses, depths, and heights were chosen to give a total of twenty-seven fins. The fins were loaded using both inward and outward wind loading. Each of these fins was analysed using
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Architects in recent times have placed a high demand on the use of glass as a structural element due to its desirable property of transparency. In particular, the design and construction of glass walls. In order to support these walls, and satisfy transparency requirements, toughened glass fins are used. A main concern in glass fin design is the problem of buckling. Unfortunately, the Australian Standard used in the design of these fins (AS1288) to prevent buckling is insufficient as it limits fin design to only a few very specific possibilities. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the design methods set out in AS1288 and compare them to a model using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). In order to do a comparison between the two models, a selection fin sizes were used for a buckling analysis. Three fin thicknesses, depths, and heights were chosen to give a total of twenty-seven fins. The fins were loaded using both inward and outward wind loading. Each of these fins was analysed using
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