Dynamic three-dimensional stress prediction of window glass under thermal loading

The thermal stress upon window glass is thought as the main cause of glass fracture under thermal or fire loads. A finite element program, called as EASY, was developed to investigate the dynamic thermal stress distribution upon glass in this work. A Newmark time integration method was used as the dynamic response scheme in the code. The EASY result on thermal stress agrees well with an ANSYS result, which indicates that EASY can be used to...