Citation
Pacios Alvarez, Antonia and Huerta Gómez de Merodio, María Consuelo and Sánchez, Jacobo and Calle, A.
(2013).
Post-fracture behavior of laminated plates after human impact test.
In: "COST Action TU0905 Mid-term Conference on Structural Glass", 18/04/2013 - 19/04/2013, Porec, Croacia. ISBN 9781138000445. pp. 165-172.
Abstract
For safety barriers the load bearing capacity of the glass when subjected to the soft body impact should be verified. The soft body pendulum test became a testing standard to classify safety glass plates. The classification of the safety glass do not consider the structural behavior when one sheet of a laminated glass is broken; in situations when the replacement of the plate could not be very urgent, structural behavior should be evaluated. The main objective of this paper is to present the structural behavior o laminated glass plates, though modal test and human impact test, including the post fracture behavior for the laminated cases. A god reproducibility and repeatability is obtained. Two main aspects of the structural behavior can be observed: the increment of the rupture load for laminated plates after the failure of the first sheet, and some similarities with a tempered monolithic behavior of equivalent thickness.
