Buckling of multilayered laminated glass beams: Validation of the effective thickness concept

摘要

Stability of laminated structural glass is one of the design requirements to be considered due to the brittle and slender nature of this kind of glass elements. Since laminated glass is mainly manufacture with viscoelastic interlayers, its mechanical properties are temperature and time dependent. This implies that, i.e., the critical load of a laminated glass beam subject to constant compressive load decreases with time as well as with temperature.