Glass and Bending Action

Paolo Foraboschi, University IUAV of Venice

This paper presents an analytical model that predicts stress development and ultimate strength of lami-nated glass beams involving a multilayered system that allows displacements in the shear flexible inter-layer. The model may be applied to laminates of arbitrary shape and size under prevailing uniaxial bend-ing. No specific simplifying assumption is made in formulating the procedure, so the modeling inaccuracy is marginal, as proved by comparing theoretical model predictions with test results.

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