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Experimental Vibration Analysis of a Cracked Laminated Glass Beam with Bolted Joint



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Mehmet Yetmez, Serhat Aktas, Ismail Gundogdu, Enes Gur, Emre Karaul, Yagizcan Ulusoy and Hamza Erdogan

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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2014.11.010

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bulent Ecevit University, Zonguldak 67100, Turkey

In this study, in order to determine the very early load transfer behavior in the bolted joint connection, experimental dynamic analysis of different laminated glass beams including two surface cracks is considered. For this purpose, both three different plastic interlayers (i.e., three types of polyvinyl butyral—PVB) and three different glass-lamina thicknesses are taken into account. Effects of the plastic interlayer, thickness of the glass-lamina, number of surface cracks and their locations on the vibration characteristics/structural performances are examined experimentally. Vibration tests are performed to present free vibration characteristics of the laminated glass beams under clamped-free boundary conditions. Experimental dynamic analysis consists of six parts: (I) vibration analysis with no-crack and no-hole with a bolted joint; (II) vibration analysis with a surface crack and no-hole with a bolted joint; (III) vibration analysis with two surface cracks and no-hole with a bolted joint; (IV) vibration analysis with no-crack and a hole with a bolted joint; (V) vibration analysis with a surface crack and a hole with a bolted joint; (VI) vibration analysis with two surface cracks and a hole with a bolted joint. For these experimental steps, an impact hammer with a force transducer is used to excite the uncracked or cracked composite beams through the selected points. After the excitation, the responses are obtained by an accelerometer. The vibration measurements are completed using a microprocessor-based data acquisition system and nCode GlyphWorks software. Results are given in tabular and graphical forms.

Vibration, laminated glass beam, PVB, crack, thickness effect.