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Continuously curved, full glass shells have a large potential for application in free-form façades or roofs. Glass elements needed for such a construction can be fabricated either by heat bending or cold lamination bending. But as the curvature and size of glass laminates are limited by manufacturing restrictions, structural joining is necessary for assembling large shells. Unfortunately, such joint discontinuities conflict with the desired membrane state of the shell. The joint pattern layout has a large influence on the load bearing behaviour, stability and appearance of glass shells. Hence, computational procedures have been used to optimise the joint geometry layout by targeting either at minimising particular joint forces or by following the principal membrane force trajectories of the shell.
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