Modelling laminated glass beam failure via stochastic rigid body-spring model and bond-based peridynamics

The failure of a laminated glass beam is investigated by two full discrete numerical approaches: a Rigid Body-Spring Model (RBSM) and a mesh-free numerical method arising from bond-based Peridynamics (PD). The brittle nature of the failure has been modelled and investigated by exploiting the discrete nature of these models, and specifically the PD which allows the bond/spring strengths to be explicitly related with the size and orientation of...