@article{7178207,
  abstract     = {{A significant number of investigations has been performed to improve the unsafe (brittle) failure behaviour of glass beams. Similar to reinforced concrete, reinforced glass beams have been developed in which stainless steel is embedded in the glass laminate to obtain safe failure behaviour. The concept has been proven to be feasible when assuming statically determinate systems.However, the additional system safety of statically indeterminate systems has not been investigated yet. This paper presents numerical research outcomes on reinforced glass beams with statically determinate as well as statically indeterminate support conditions. In a first step, a model of a twosided reinforced beam subjected to three-point bending was created for validation purposes. The thickness
and height of the constituents making up the model were based on experimental measurements of test specimens.
Subsequently, the same numerical model was made using nominal dimensions for the glass and reinforcement.
In this way, the effect of dimensional tolerances on the load-carrying behaviour was investigated.
Furthermore, a single-sided reinforced glass beam was
modelled under the same loading conditions to assess
the effect of adding compressive reinforcement. In a
second step, statically indeterminate two-sided reinforced
beam models were constructed based on the statically determinate model. From these preliminary models, the load-carrying behaviour and effect of reinforcement
percentage were evaluated. Finally, also the stress redistribution capacity of both beam models was assessed. It is concluded that dimensional tolerances
have a significant effect on the load-carrying behaviour
and should therefore be accounted for in the design
of reinforced glass beams. The additional compressive
reinforcement provides slightly higher bending stiffness,
initial failure load and yield load to the glass beams, although it does not contribute in the yield phase. However, a different ultimate collapse mechanism
is expected as the compressive reinforcement can
take the stress when the glass compressive zone has
failed. The statically indeterminate simulations proved
the feasibility of applying reinforced glass beams in
statically indeterminate systems as a safe failure behaviour
was observed with significant stress redistribution
capacity. Changing the reinforcement percentage has
a significant effect on the load-carrying behaviour of
these systems. However, the overall behaviour remains
safe.}},
  author       = {{Martens, Kenny and Caspeele, Robby and Belis, Jan}},
  issn         = {{2363-5142}},
  journal      = {{GLASS STRUCTURES & ENGINEERING}},
  keywords     = {{Reinforcement,Structural glass beams,Numerical simulation,Support conditions,System safety}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{417--431}},
  title        = {{Numerical investigation of two-sided reinforced laminated glass beams in statically indeterminate systems}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s40940-016-0005-6}},
  volume       = {{1}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}

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