Abstract :
Glass is used in buildings as partition wall,
window panels, etc in the past centuries as a non structural
element which do not carry loads other than its self weight.
But it is used as structural element for the past few decades.
Glasses are used as beams in roofs of glass structures
which bring light into the building and serves to eco -
friendly world. Glass has very high compressive strength
compared to other building materials but low tensile
strength due to its surface flaws, also it is a brittle material.
In order to increase the safety of structural glass in
structures, glass has to be converted to ductile by providing
reinforcement. In glass beams reinforcements are provided
in the tensile zone in various forms to increase the flexural
behavior. This work presents analytical study of glass
beams with reinforcement provided by bonding stainless
steel plate at the bottom by ABAQUS finite element
software. Quarter beam is modeled by taking the advantage
of the symmetry of the boundary condition, loading
condition, and cross section. Four beams made up of
polyvinyl butyl laminated annealed glass with three
different thicknesses of stainless steel plates were analysed.
The load carrying capacity from the ABAQUS software is
compared with the numerical values calculated.
Keyword :
Structural Glass; Glass Beams; Reinforcement; FE Analysis; ABAQUS