摘要 |
This invention refers to the production, fabrication and erection of curtain walls capable of resisting to the seismic forces of major earthquakes without breakage of their glass panes. The above can be achieved through the operational separation ofthe curtain wall of each storey from those of adjacent storeys, by formation of a sliding line on the top of the windows (2.3), through the mutual hooks of suspension of the windows (6.3, 6.10) so that the displacement of the one storey to be independent from the others. The structure of the curtain wall of each storey is confined only to the fixed part of the curtain wall of the storey and consists of the uprights (3.1), which support at their ends the horizontal beams, the sill-beam (3.2) andthe lintel-beam (3.3), from which the glassed panels (2.4), (2.6) are suspended respectively, and the attachments (3.4) on the floor slab. There are no uprights in the region of windows. The uprights at no case are touching the glass panels. The interstorey drifts () are in all directions absorbed at the area of the windows by the suspension joints (7.5) and (7.6) and the specific angle profiles (10). |