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1. INTRODUCTION Single-layer cable net supported glass curtain walls are a new kind of structure with the advantages of simplicity, lightness and transparency. They are widely used in airport passenger terminals, exhibition centers, gymnasia and hotel halls. Since the stiffness of the single-layer cable net is much decided by the geometric nonlinearity, the deflection of the structure is large, and in practice the theoretical deflection is often found to be greatly different to the practical one. One key consequence of this phenomenon is that we always neglect the effect of the glass panels. The problem we are now facing is to decide the extent to which glass panels influence the cable net and under what circumstances we should take the effect of the glass panels into consideration. As a new kind of structure, the research mainly concentrated on the mechanical behavior of the glass panel. Saitoh et al. (2001) compared the deformation and stresses of a glass panel with two kinds of connecting joints. Jan et al. (2001) performed a static experiment in order to determinate the load-carrying capacity of an armored glass panel. Wang (2002) summed up the factors which affect the load-carrying capacity of a glass panel with the sunk type joint. From the technological and morphological point of view, Vyzantiadou (2004) put forward the requirements for the fixed-point joints. However, there is little related research on the problems posed by the writers. In order to solve the above problems, the feasible ways through which glass panels work in coordination with the cable net are proposed. Relevant model experiments and finite element simulations have been conducted to verify them. In addition, the influence of factors, such as cable pretension, severity of loading, cable diameter, glass thickness and glass mesh size, on the coordination work between the glass panels and the cable net have been analyzed. Advances in Structural Engineering Vol. 10 No. 2 2007 183 Working Mechan