Nonlinear response spectrums for cable-supported glass curtain walls

Aiming at the seismic-resistant performance of cable-supported glass curtain walls,the methods for formulating nonlinear single degree of freedom system and calculating the nonlinear response spectrums are proposed. Taking pretension effect in cables and geometrical nonlinearity into account,the nonlinear acceleration spectrums are calculated under given conditions,such as site and different seismic fortification intensities. The seismic design response spectrums are developed. During vibrating,varying period due to the influence of pretension effect in cables and geometrical nonlinearity drives the maximum period of plateau in nonlinear response spectrums to move towards the long period zone,and the maximum of seismic effect coefficient is larger than that of current seismic code. The theoretical analysis and the example demonstrate that using the nonlinear response spectrums is safe and economical.

Optimized Simulation Design of Double Glass Curtain Wall Shading System in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zone

The glass curtain wall is widely favored by the owners for its good appearance modeling efthct. In using process, however, excessive energy consumption, low level indoor eomtort and other problems of glass curtain wall are often exposed. Aiming at office buildings in hot Summer and cold Winter zone, taking the optimization of thermal comfort of double glass curtain wall in the summer and the reduetion of building energy consumption throughout the year as the breakthrough point, using the method of energy simulation analysis, through changing the size of internal shading component in the simulated room, this paper analyzes and summarizes the variation law of its energy consumption value, to explore the relatively reasonable design plan of shading systems of the building with glass curtain wall.

A SIMPLIFIED CALCULATING METHOD OF NONLINEAR FREQUENCY OF CABLE NET UNDER MEAN WIND LOAD

The cable net supported glass curtain wallas the most advanced technique in dot point supported glass curtain wall, is widely used in China. Because of its large deflection and high nonlinearity under wind load, the dynamic performance of the cable net is greatly different from that of the conventional linear structures. The continuous membrane theory is used to construct the nonlinear vibration differential equation of the cable net, and the harmonic balance method is used to solve the analytic formula of the nonlinear frequency. In order to verify the accuracy of the above analytic formula, the results of the formula and the nonlinear FEM time-history method are compared and found to be in good agreement. Furthermore, the nonlinear vibration differential equation and the nonlinear frequency obtained in this paper are the basis for the wind-induced response analysis of a cable net under fluctuating wind load.

Study on Thermal Characteristics of a Novel Glass Curtain Wall System

In order to solve the conflict between indoor lighting and PV cells in building-integrated photovoltaic/thermal(BIPV/T) systems, a glass curtain wall system based on a tiny transmissive concentrator is proposed. This glass curtain wall has a direct influence on the heat transfer between indoor and outdoor, and the operating parameters of air and water inlet temperature, indoor and outdoor temperature, and radiation intensity have a significant influence on the heat transfer characteristics of the glass curtain wall. The 3D model is established by SoildWorks software, and the thermal characteristics of the new glass curtain wall system are simulated through computational fluid dynamics(CFD) method. Thermal performance was tested under actual weather for the winter working conditions. The CFD simulation results are verified by the test results under actual weather. The results show that thermal efficiency simulation results are in good agreement with the experimental results of the new glass curtain wall system. The simulation conditions were designed by using the orthogonal method, and the significance analysis of the influencing factors of the indoor wall surface heat gain was carried out. With the increase of the bottom heat flux and the air velocity, the heat absorption of the inner wall surface increases. When the wind speed is 0.1 m/s, the heat flow on the bottom surface rises from 500 W/m^(2) to 2500 W/m^(2), and the heat flow intensity on the interior wall changes from 10.31 W/m^(2) to -29.12 W/m^(2). Under typical working conditions, the new glass curtain wall system can reduce the indoor heat load by 47.5% than ordinary glass curtain wall.