Publications by Pieter Christian Louter

Exploring the potential of the critical shear crack theory for reinforced and post-tensioned glass beams: Initial analysis and experiments

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

In the evolution of structural glass beam elements, the requirements for post-fracture load bearing capacity and safe failure behaviour have led to the development of reinforced and post-tensioned beams. Maximum bending capacity in the post-fracture state ...

2023

Flexural behaviour of post-tensioned glass beams: Experimental and analytical study of three beam typologies

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

The concept of post-tensioned glass beams builds on the concrete analogy of the reinforced glass beams. By additionally prestressing the reinforcement in a post-tensioned system, a compressive pre-stress is applied on the glass, enhancing the initial fract ...

2021

Post-tensioning of glass beams: Analytical determination of the allowable pre-load

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

The effectiveness of post-tensioning in enhancing the fracture resistance of glass beams depends on the level of compressive pre-stress introduced at the glass edge surface that will in service be exposed to tensile stresses induced by bending. Maximum pre ...

2021

Structural response of fire-exposed laminated glass beams under sustained loads; exploratory experiments and FE-Simulations

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter

This paper investigates the structural response of laminated glass beams under combined fire-exposure and sustained in-plane loading. This is done by means of experimental testing and Finite Element (FE) numerical modelling. Firstly, small-scale (1 m long) ...

2021

A novel triaxial failure model for adhesive connections in structural glass applications

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

2018

Experimental and numerical analysis of thick embedded laminated glass connections

Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

2018

Laminated connections under tensile load at different temperatures and strain rates

Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

In the last years, a novel typology of adhesive connections for structural glass application has emerged, known as laminated adhesive connections, which makes use of the transparent ionomer SentryGlasa (R) (SG) from Kuraray and the Transparent Structural S ...

Elsevier2017

Laminated connections for structural glass components: a full-scale experimental study

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

The use of glass material for structural components has drastically increased in the last decade. Among others, a laminated connection is a type of adhesive joint that makes use of foil interlayer adhesive to transfer forces between glass and metal parts. ...

Springer International Publishing Ag2017

Experimental investigation of multi-span post-tensioned glass beams

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

This paper presents a study on post-tensioned glass beams in a statically indeterminate system. In order to increase the safety of structural glass beams, ductile reinforcement can be added to glass beam sections providing secondary load carrying mechanism ...

Springer Nature2017

Laminated connections for structural glass applications under shear loading at different temperatures and strain rates

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

Connections between structural glass components represent one of the main critical aspects of glass engineering. In the last years, a novel typology of adhesive connections has emerged, known as laminated adhesive connections. Two adhesive materials for la ...

Elsevier2016

The mechanical behaviour of SentryGlas® ionomer and TSSA silicon bulk materials at different temperatures and strain rates under uniaxial tensile stress state

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

2016

The effectiveness of resin-based repairs on the inert strength recovery of glass

Pieter Christian Louter

Glass used in buildings is often exposed to sources of surface damage which can have a significant effect on its strength. Existing research suggests that the flaws in glass can successfully be repaired by transparent polymeric resins, but the reasons for ...

Elsevier2015

Post-Tensioned Structural Glass Beams - Comparative Experimental Study

Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

This paper presents a study of a system of post-tensioned structural glass beams. In order to increase the initial fracture strength of glass beams and provide residual load-carrying capacity in the event of glass failure, annealed laminated glass beams ar ...

2015

Influence of the number of test specimens on glass strength estimates

Pieter Christian Louter

CRC Press/Balkema2014

A preliminary study of the nonlinearity of adhesive point-fixings in structural glass facades

Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

The recent demand for architectural transparency has drastically increased the use of glass material for structural purpose. However, connections between structural glass members represent one of the most critical aspects of glass engineering, due to the f ...

2014

Experimental study on glass edge machining flaw characterization

Maria Lindqvist, Pieter Christian Louter

Knowledge of failure strength is the key to structural glass applications. However, the influence of the manufacturing process on the failure initiation at the glass edge is not well known. For this paper, small-scale glass specimens are tested in four-poi ...

Elsevier2014

Exploratory experimental investigations on post-tensioned structural glass beams

Jean-Paul Lebet, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

The mechanical response of post-tensioned glass beams is explored in this paper. This is done through bending experiments on post-tensioned glass beam specimens with either mechanically anchored or adhesively bonded steel tendons by which a beneficial pre- ...

2014

The mechanical behavior of SentryGlas® and TSSA laminated polymers in cured and uncured state in uniaxial tensile test

Pieter Christian Louter, Manuel Santarsiero

Transparent polymer interlayers are usually adopted to laminate glass members dealing with structural roles. Currently, they are also used to realize laminated adhesive connec-tions joining structural glass components (e.g. steel-to-glass connections). Res ...

Taylor & Francis Group2014

The effects of environmental impacts on durability of laminated glass plates with interlayers (SG, EVA, PVB)

Jean-Paul Lebet, Pieter Christian Louter, Tomas Serafinavicius

CRC Press/Balkema2014

Exploratory 2D and 3D numerical investigation of SG-laminated reinforced glass beams

Pieter Christian Louter

SentryGlas®(SG)-laminated reinforced glass beams are numerically investigated. This innovative structural typology consists of a composite section in which the typical brittle behaviour of glass is overcome by means of stainless steel sections able to prov ...

2014