Experimental study on the thermal performance of soda-lime-silica glass by radiant panel testing
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- Evelien Symoens (UGent) , Ruben Van Coile (UGent) and Jan Belis (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Assessing the fire performance of structural materials is crucial for ensuring the safety and integrity of buildings and structures. Traditionally, this assessment involves expensive and time-consuming physical fire tests. However, an alternative cost-effective approach is numerical modelling, which requires a deep understanding of heat transfer mechanisms specific to the material of interest. While numerous models exist for opaque materials, modelling glass in fire conditions presents additional complexities due to its transparency and wavelength-dependent heat transfer characteristics. This paper presents an experimental campaign employing an electric radiant panel as the heat source to investigate the heat transfer phenomena in glass. The radiant panel consists of 21 emitters capable of producing a uniform radiative heat flux on glass specimens of different thicknesses. The experimental results allow us to derive spectrum-averaged values for the transmittance, the absorptance, and the reflectance specific to the glass material. These values are essential for accurate fire simulations, understanding heat transfer through glass, and quantifying the transmitted radiation through the glass, which is critical to the combustible materials on the unexposed side of the glass component exposed to fire.
- Keywords
- Glass, Heat Transfer, Radiant Heat, Transmittance, Absorptance, Reflectance
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J4RJVTAH1M6E40ZGP42R64WC
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- Symoens, Evelien, et al. “Experimental Study on the Thermal Performance of Soda-Lime-Silica Glass by Radiant Panel Testing.” Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024, edited by Christian Louter et al., vol. 9, CGC, 2024.
- APA
- Symoens, E., Van Coile, R., & Belis, J. (2024). Experimental study on the thermal performance of soda-lime-silica glass by radiant panel testing. In C. Louter, F. Bos, & J. Belis (Eds.), Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024 (Vol. 9). CGC.
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- Symoens, Evelien, Ruben Van Coile, and Jan Belis. 2024. “Experimental Study on the Thermal Performance of Soda-Lime-Silica Glass by Radiant Panel Testing.” In Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024, edited by Christian Louter, Freek Bos, and Jan Belis. Vol. 9. CGC.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- Symoens, Evelien, Ruben Van Coile, and Jan Belis. 2024. “Experimental Study on the Thermal Performance of Soda-Lime-Silica Glass by Radiant Panel Testing.” In Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024, ed by. Christian Louter, Freek Bos, and Jan Belis. Vol. 9. CGC.
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- 1.Symoens E, Van Coile R, Belis J. Experimental study on the thermal performance of soda-lime-silica glass by radiant panel testing. In: Louter C, Bos F, Belis J, editors. Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024. CGC; 2024.
- IEEE
- [1]E. Symoens, R. Van Coile, and J. Belis, “Experimental study on the thermal performance of soda-lime-silica glass by radiant panel testing,” in Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024, Delft, The Netherlands, 2024, vol. 9.
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author = {{Symoens, Evelien and Van Coile, Ruben and Belis, Jan}},
booktitle = {{Challenging Glass 9 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass Delft University of Technology - June 2024}},
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year = {{2024}},
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