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Experimental and numerical investigation of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams

Experimental and numerical investigation of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams
Experimental and numerical investigation of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams
Despite the great potentials of glass as a construction material, its brittle material behaviour poses major challenges to structural engineers when designing load-bearing glass structural members. This paper presents the load response and the failure behaviour of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams, when used as a mean of improving strength and ductility of float glass. Hybrid beams made from two layers of float glass sheets and an adhesively-bonded semi-transparent pre-cured GFRP interlayer were tested in four-point bending. The experimental results showed that double layer hybrid beams continued to take load even after the formation of the first major crack, and the beams were stronger and ductile than conventional single and multilayer float glass beams. Once the bottom glass layer has cracked the combination of the GFRP and the top glass layer carried the applied load whilst the gradual decrease in the stiffness due to the formation of new cracks ensures a ductile failure. Experimentally-validated finite element (FE) models that predict the evolution of stresses, stiffness and failure load of single and double layer glass beams, and glass– GFRP hybrid beams are also presented.
Balan, Bogdan
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Achintha, Mithila
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Balan, Bogdan
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Achintha, Mithila
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Balan, Bogdan and Achintha, Mithila (2016) Experimental and numerical investigation of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams. Challenging Glass 5 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass, Ghent, Belgium. 16 - 17 Jun 2016. 8 pp .

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Despite the great potentials of glass as a construction material, its brittle material behaviour poses major challenges to structural engineers when designing load-bearing glass structural members. This paper presents the load response and the failure behaviour of float glass–GFRP hybrid beams, when used as a mean of improving strength and ductility of float glass. Hybrid beams made from two layers of float glass sheets and an adhesively-bonded semi-transparent pre-cured GFRP interlayer were tested in four-point bending. The experimental results showed that double layer hybrid beams continued to take load even after the formation of the first major crack, and the beams were stronger and ductile than conventional single and multilayer float glass beams. Once the bottom glass layer has cracked the combination of the GFRP and the top glass layer carried the applied load whilst the gradual decrease in the stiffness due to the formation of new cracks ensures a ductile failure. Experimentally-validated finite element (FE) models that predict the evolution of stresses, stiffness and failure load of single and double layer glass beams, and glass– GFRP hybrid beams are also presented.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 16 June 2016
Venue - Dates: Challenging Glass 5 Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass, Ghent, Belgium, 2016-06-16 - 2016-06-17
Organisations: Infrastructure Group

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Local EPrints ID: 397376
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397376
PURE UUID: c734d0a8-43f6-4318-a7cf-f40382f7e996
ORCID for Mithila Achintha: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1732-3514

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Date deposited: 30 Jun 2016 13:16
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 01:13

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Author: Bogdan Balan
Author: Mithila Achintha ORCID iD

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