Degradation of Laminated Glass as Result of Increased Temperature

Abstract

The degradation of laminated glass as a result of increased temperature has become one of the important problem of reconstructions and designs of new glass structures, for instance high-rise buildings that are exposed to the impacts of an intensive heating caused e. g. by sunshine. The temperatures during heating can reach very high values, commonly from 60 to 70 °C. The effect of heating was simulated using the thermal chamber where the glass panes with the size of 120 x 1100 mm were heated. The deformation course under the increase of temperature was continually monitored by a measuring unit. In total six types of foils joining particular layers of glass were examined. In this paper the experimentally gained results are compared with a numeric computer analysis and the particular kinds of interlayers are evaluated using the loss of shear interaction.