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Numerical representation of fracture patterns and post-fracture load-bearing performance of thermally prestressed glass with polymer foil

•A thermally prestressed glass panel with a polymer foil (backsheet) is studied.•Its post-fracture load-bearing performance (bending) is numerically assessed.•Digital image processing is used to obtain fracture patterns from experiments.•The panel is modeled by a quadtree mesh with prismatic polyhed...

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Published in:Engineering structures 2021-01, Vol.226, p.111318, Article 111318
Main Authors: Saputra, A., Behnke, R., Xing, W., Song, C., Schneider, J., Kaliske, M.
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Language:English
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Summary:•A thermally prestressed glass panel with a polymer foil (backsheet) is studied.•Its post-fracture load-bearing performance (bending) is numerically assessed.•Digital image processing is used to obtain fracture patterns from experiments.•The panel is modeled by a quadtree mesh with prismatic polyhedral finite elements.•Cohesive elements represent the structural effect of the polymer foil. Glass can be thermally prestressed to enhance its load-bearing performance and tensile strength for civil engineering constructions. In such applications, the glass is thermally treated (internal stress state) and polymer foils/interlayers are applied to generate a laminate with a higher resistance to bending (out-of-plane loading) in case of fracture. In this contribution, a thermally prestressed glass panel with polymer foil as a backsheet is investigated as a special configuration of safety glass. In its post-fracture state, the polymer foil still provides a minimum structural integrity. Commonly, the post-fracture load-bearing performance of such polymer-glass assemblies is experimentally assessed by large scale tests related to high costs and testing time. In this research, an approach is presented to numerically assess the post-fracture load-bearing performance (bending) of such a fractured glass panel. The approach is based on A) digital image processing of the fracture pattern of three glass samples, B) the generation of a quadtree finite element (FE) mesh, C) the use of prismatic polyhedral FE to efficiently represent glass fragments in the quadtree FE mesh and D) cohesive elements with a nonlinear traction-separation law (TSL) for finite separation to represent the structural effect of the polymer foil during the post-fracture state.
ISSN:0141-0296
1873-7323
DOI:10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111318