Thermo-mechanical modelling of laminated glass with the use of two-dimensional in-plane mesh

The three-dimensional (3D) numerical modelling of laminated glass (LG) plate subjected to coupled thermomechanical loading is in the scope of this paper. The method called FEM23 is applied, in which a 2D in-plane mesh is used, however full 3D results are obtained. In any LG plate glass panes are bonded by very thin polymer films. This layered structure consists of subsequent thick and thin layers of glass and polymer, respectively. Additionally, the thermal and mechanical properties of the glass and the bonding polymer are significantly different. FEM23 is suitable for analyses of such kind of structure. The full 3D results of the coupled problem are obtained following special FEM23 postprocessing. FEM23 is a relatively simple, robust and effective method and 3D thermo-mechanical results obtained are correct for both stationary and non-stationary heat transport. The accuracy of the method has been examined with the use of solutions obtained from the ABAQUS system. The examples presented in the article include two-, three- and four-paned LG plates.