Characterization of laminated glass windscreen through mechanical testing with numerical validation for a pedestrian head impact

Abstract

[EN] This thesis extends a previous study which uses a smeared model to predict the behavior of the laminated glass windscreen. New numerical models are developed in an attempt to improve the available current one such as solid or shell-solid elements models. However, they were discarded because they were stiffer than experimental data. Thus, the smeared model remained as most promising possible solution but their parameters needed to be recalculated.