Modelling of laminated glass using shell elements

- September 20, 2021 at 3:38 pm
  
  Ave_Nio
  Subscriber
  
  Hello I'm trying to model laminated glass, using shell elements. I was thinking of using a layered shell Glass-PVB-Glass, but I want to capture the deformation of the shell section, that deforms like:
- September 20, 2021 at 4:06 pm
  
  ErKo
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi
  
  shell elements will not capture this effect - you would need to model the layers (glass and glue) explicitly using 3D elements (e.g., solid185).
  
  thank you
  
  Erik
- September 21, 2021 at 4:01 pm
  
  Ave_Nio
  Subscriber
  
  ekostson
  
  Hi, I feared that might be the case.
  
  Thank you for the response
- March 23, 2023 at 8:10 pm
  
  A7medoo7
  Subscriber
  
  @Ave_Nio
  Did you get a reasonable result?