Abstract
Nowadays, timber with its natural appearance and glass with its transparent characteristics provide new opportunities for architects and engineers in construction as load-bearing systems. The main aim of presented research is to introduce timber-glass composite structural elements as new products to the Turkish market. A questionnaire method has been evaluated with the timber industries with the aim to gather market insight into the production of timber-glass components in order to query the knowledge of the timber industries about the suitability of timber-glass composite as a structural element. In line with this research, potential architectural design applications called pilot projects are presented by using timber-glass composites as load bearing elements. The pilot projects throughout will provide insights into the practicality and applicability of the developed composite systems in creating different design and application solutions. According to the respondents of the questionnaire, the timber industries in Turkey indicated that load-bearing capacity of timber-glass composite structural elements can be advantageous and the new structural element will be probably able to compete with other alternative structural elements in Turkey.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 698-705 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Baltic Forestry |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, Institute of Forestry LAMMC. All rights reserved.
Funding
The authors would like to acknowledge the Scientific and the Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for the national funding of research project “Load Bearing Timber-Glass Composites with project number 1100950”, which is a part of international research programme WoodWisdom-Net. Also, the authors are grateful to the timber industries for contributing to the questionnaires.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu | 1100950 |
Keywords
- Composite systems
- Pilot project
- Questionnaire
- Timber industries
- Timber-glass composite systems