Glass Structures & Engineering - Call For Papers: GLASS AND FIRE: Thermal and Mechanical Performance of Glass Elements Exposed to High Temperatures
Guest Editors
Prof. Luisa Giuliani, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Prof. Ruben Van Coile, Ghent University, Belgium
Opening date for submissions: May 3, 2024
Deadline for submissions: December 6, 2024
Description
Glass has always been an important building material to realize windows, facades, transparent partitions, doors, and other elements with no special fire requirements. However, the increasing use of glass to realize stairs, floors, catwalks, and other structural elements has prompted researchers and structural designers to look into the behavior and performance of glass in fire.
Simultaneously, the rising demand of energy‐saving buildings led to the development of insulating glass units (IGUs), made by multi‐layered glass panes, often coated with low‐emissivity films. Such IGUs do not break as easily as single pane windows in fire, thus altering the ventilation conditions and the fire development assumptions to be considered by the fire engineers. Modelling glass fallout is however still an open research question.
Finally, the increment in number and height of tall buildings, on one side, has promoted the use of glass building envelopes and glass curtain walls, and, on the other side, has increased the risk of vertical fire spread in buildings and spotlighted the importance of the fire performance of glass façades to avoid such fire spread.
For all these reasons, understanding the behavior and performance of glass exposed to high temperatures has become paramount and this topical issue aims to gather recent research developments and technological advances in this field.
Manuscript preparation
Papers must be prepared in accordance with Springer policy. Instructions and Guide for Authors are available online at: https://link.springer.com/journal/40940/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab)
Manuscript submission
Please indicate that you wish your manuscript to be considered for the special issue on "GLASS AND FIRE: Thermal and Mechanical Performance of Glass Elements Exposed to High Temperatures". All submitted papers will be reviewed as soon as they are received.
Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.
Guest Editor Biographies
Luisa Giuliani is an Associate Professor at the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department of the Technical University of Denmark, where she teaches and researches fire safety design of structures. She is educated as Civil Engineer and has obtained a PhD in Structural Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, in 2009, with a thesis entitled: “Structural integrity: robustness assessment and progressive collapse susceptibility”. She has authored several publications on the numerical modeling of the structural response to accidental events and experimental investigation of steel, concrete, and glass elements in fire.
Ruben Van Coile is an Associate Professor in Structural Fire Engineering at Ghent University, where he researches and teaches on performances of structures during and after fire, probabilistic structural fire safety engineering, and reliability-based decision-making and lifetime cost-optimization. Ruben holds degrees in civil engineering, fire safety engineering and law and has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh and a practicing structural fire safety engineer in London.