| Resumo: | The use of glass in construction has been increasing due to its sustainability, aesthetics, and functionality. In the last decades, glass has come to be used as a structural element, but still has little normative reference. The present dissertation aims at investigating the use of glass and its applicability in structural elements. In addition to its physical characterization, the step-by-step design of structural glass panels was detailed from the North American standards ASTM E1300 (2016), ASTM E2751 (2017), the European pre-standard prEN 16612 (2013) and the Australian standard AS 1288 (2006), since in Brazil there is no standards that approach the subject and in Europe the standard is on development phase. In addition to the normative analysis, glass elements were tested in the laboratory as glass and beams to analyze its behavior and a model of a walkway with glass structural elements were studied using the software ©DLUBAL – RFEM 5.16.
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