FEM - New Ways in Glass Design and Engineering

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Bohmann

Design and statics of glass panes with various support conditions and under various types of loading is a daily standard problem in the engineering practice, for what the finite element method is used. If laminated glass, point supported glass panes or insulating glass units shall be analysed using conventional finite element techniques the effort increases drastically. In particular the numerical simulation of impact bodies is difficult to consider using conventional finite element methods.

Therefore a new finite element approach is presented in this paper, developed especially for the glass engineering practice.

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The Authors

Dr. Dirk Bohmann Dr. borit Leichtbau-Technik GmbH Study of civil engineer at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. Worked 10 years a the university of Aachen, Institute of steel construction, Prof.-Dr. G. Sedlacek. Doctoral thesis in finite element approaches ... Read more