ABSTRACT
Aluminum profiles with a thermal break are part of thermally insulated aluminum profile systems used to make architectural elements of the building envelope requiring thermal and acoustic insulation, i.e. facades, windows, doors, entrance enclosures or winter gardens. The vast scope of shaping profiles and thermal breaks enables the most futuristic construction projects. Facades made in this system perform well in various environmental conditions and various architectural solutions. The paper presents an analysis of transverse deformability of aluminum profiles with a thermal break, which is important from the point of view of the ability of the profile fixing to carry loads. A test stand was built to analyze the impact of applying a transverse load depending on its distance from the specimen axis. ABAQUS system codes were used to present a numerical model of the process under analysis.
