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Laminated glass with Polyvinyl Butyral (PVB) interlayer became a popular safety glass for aircraft windows, architecturaJ and automotive glazing applications. The very soft interlayer, bonding the glass plates, however, has negligible normal stress in transverse loading and it resists mainly by shear stress. The classical laminate theory obeying the principle of the straight normals remaining straight is not valid for laminated glass. Conventional Finite Elements (FE) are used to model the laminated glass in cylindrical bending to investigate the problem.Based on the assumption that the glass layers of a laminated glass plate ohey Kirchoff' s classical plate theory and the PVB-interlayer transfer load by shear stress only, the differential equations of a Triplex Laminated Glass (TLG) plate are derived and a special TLG plate FE is elaborated. For each of its nodes, the element has one transverse translational, three rotational, and two additional degrees of freedom representing the slippage between the glass layers. All computational models are compared with experimental tests of a laminated glass strip in cylindrical bending.
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