The design methods of the load bearing glass columns developed extremely in the last years. Numerous glass researchers have been trying to optimize the glass structures in terms of cost-effectiveness and safety. The authors carried out several laboratory experiments to analyze the key factors of the glass column design. Factors are investigated in the present article for example the influence of the fixing at the end of the glass columns, which essentially modifies the load bearing capacity of structures. The efficiency of the gluing of the interlayer foil (the coupling parameter) was analyzed based on the individual laboratory experiments.
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