Enhanced Effective Thickness Method For Laminated Glass. A Case Study

The bending performance of laminated glass depends upon the shear coupling offered by the interlayer and is usually taken into account by defi ning the effective thickness, i.e., the thickness of an element with equivalent bending properties. Here, the approach by the French Standard Cahier CSTB 3488 and the recently-proposed Enhanced Effective Thickness method are applied to a paradigmatic case study: a Norman Foster’s design, just about to be built in France. Results are compared with accurate 3 D FEM numerical experiments.