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A plate finite element for modelling of triplex laminated glass and comparison with other computational models
Abstract
Laminated glass became a popular safety glass. The very soft interlayer of polymeric material
impedes the slippage between glass layers, bending in parallel, by shear stress. The shear stress of the
interlayer breaches the principle of straight normals remaining straight after deformation, on which is
based the conventional shell elements in finite element (FE) analysis. As a result of this, the conventional finite elements are not capable to solve the laminated glass problems efficiently. Based on the assumption that the glass layers of a laminated glass obey Kirchoff’s plate theory and the interlayer transfer shear stress only, a finite element formulation is elaborated by introducing new degrees of freedom and implemented in a special rectangular triplex laminated glass plate FE. The element is validated by comparison with other computational FE models and experimental tests of a laminated glass strip in cylindrical bending and a laminated glass panel in transverse loading. The developed plate element or similar shell elements that could be developed on the same theory could solve the problem with laminated glass structures very efficiently and accurately, which is now
usually solved by sacrificing the fidelity.
Keywords Laminated glass , Finite element , Plate theory , Computational models
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