ABSTRACT
The brittleness of glass has largely contributed to give to this material a “filling” role, and has delayed its use as a structural material. It is now recognized that lamination enables to increase the redundancy and then the ductility of glass elements. The structural integrity of a laminated glass element may be challenged by risks of debonding and/ or by the breakage of the glass panes. This work investigates these two aspects of the behaviour. First an accurate prediction of the interfacial stresses, responsible of debonding risks, is presented. Then, and based on this first study, a FE computation with ABAQUS is performed to investigate failure mechanism in a laminated glass element.
