Expert Of Glass Engineer

The dimensioning and stress calculation of plate structures under various loads is a standard task of the daily engineering practice. Panes varying from a rectangular form can no more be calculated by table works or manual formula but have to be evaluated by the method of the finite elements.

In the glass building sector the systems to be examined are often very similar. But if boundary conditions, fixings or the thickness must be changed every time new meshes must be created. For the calculation of laminated safety glass generally there was need to work with volume elements.

The bearing conditions are often special variants like elastic rubber supports, point fixings or edge clampings, which take a long time to generate. The evaluation of the calculation results then always follows the same method (deformations, stresses, proof) and so far must be read out explicitly of the finite element data in an expensive way.

Additionally, there is hardly a possibility to calculate insulating glass units (from 2, 3 or 4 laminated glass panes) if any pane shape shall be examined or geometrically non-linear approaches shall be used.

All inputs, like the geometry, the bearing conditions, the kind of loads, the calculation approach or the requested output, are guided and displayed by input masks. The control and output of the results occurs visually on a graphics surface and a calculation protocol, which can be added to the static assessment.

Special new finite element methods allow the simple input and quick calculation of sandwich structures (laminated safety glass), so that the entire problem can be solved at shortest time (within a few minutes).