Is flat glass the main material or structural component in raw materials?
But sometimes the structural parts, such as the exhibition hall and the hall, have a transparent floor beneath which the contents are displayed. In order to save the raw materials, they may be designed to be cut from the whole glass without cutting into the box. At this time the flat glass is load-bearing components, to calculate its carrying capacity, which is the structural components of the.
The general case is the principal. Such as doors and windows, glass, glass partition, ceiling, and so on.
In addition, the glass door glass cabinet for calculation of the force, to ensure safe and effective, can also be seen as a structural member, but it is not in the strict sense of flat glass, because has been processed, should be called glass semi-finished products or components, according to whether the main responsible carrying tasks, not to calculate the bearing capacity and determine its structure or not.