Abstract
This paper investigates the possibilities of pultruded glass fibre rods as embedded reinforcement in SentryGlas (SG) laminated glass beams. To do so, a series of pullout tests, to investigate the bond strength of the rods to the laminate, and a series of beam tests, to investigate the post-breakage response of the beams, have been performed. Both test series have been conducted for round E-glass fibre rods and flat S-glass fibre rods. The pull-out tests showed superior pull-out strength of the flat rods, due to their large bond area. Furthermore, the beam tests showed superior post-breakage performance of the beams with the flat rods, due to higher strength and stiffness of the S-glass fibres. Overall, it is concluded that embedding glass fibre reinforcement in a SG-laminated glass beam is a very promising concept.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Challenging Glass 2, Conference on Architectural and Structural Applications of Glass |
Editors | Freek Bos, Pieter Christiaan Louter, Fred Veer |
Publisher | Challenging Glass Conference - Proceedings - 2010 |
Pages | 439-448 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-90-8570-524-6 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- structural glass
- reinforcement
- embedded
- glass fibre
- laminate
- interlayer
- beam
- composite