Metal Glass Facade Design with Analysis of Selected Construction Elements

The main part of this thesis considers the facade design of the "Format" office and service building in Gdańsk. The profile system - Aluprof was used to design the facade skeleton. The facade structure will be attached to reinforced concrete ceilings with galvanized steel consoles mounted on anchors, e.g. Hilti. The connection of console to column is made by screw. Due to the selected location, the building was classified to III snow load zone and II wind load zone. The main components of the facade are system mullions and transoms. The facade is filled with two-chamber insulating glass. Aluminum panels have also been used at the ceilings strips as well as clinker tile cladding between the glass packets.

This design study of the facade structure includes the technical description of the building, a list of loads, structural analysis of the aluminum structure and the glazing unit, dimensioning of cross-sections and connections, design of fastening - console - inter-story column and drawings. The model of the structure was made in RFEM Dlubal program. After dimensioning, the selected sections and rod elements were manually checked. The drawings were made in Autodesk AutoCad. The attachment contains the following structural drawings: projections, sections and drawings of construction details. The second part of the thesis presents issues related to the design of aluminum alloy columns under axial and eccentrical compression calculated acc. to Eurocode 9, the elements used in mullion and transom curtain walls. The appropriate standards for designing aluminum structures were used to calculate buckling resistance and the results were compared with results obtained in the conducted laboratory tests.