Due to their mechanical and optical properties UV-curable adhesives, available in different compositions, are considered very promising in structural glass design. Especially in the field of transparent facades they could play an important role. However, a product with a wide use in glass construction is still missing and therefore, there is a need of research within this field. In this work, the numerical modelling of various adhesives based on experimental data is investigated. For this purpose, results from DMTA and uniaxial tensile tests are evaluated and used to calibrate respective material models. These models must be capable of describing the stress and strain relation within the regime of finite strains. The most promising model of each composition will subsequently be used to predict the respective material behavior. By comparing the numerical results to the experimental data, the accuracy of each of the models is elaborated and discussed. Subsequently, fields of application of these models in engineering practice are emphasized.
Alexander Pauli
Numerical Modelling of UV-curing acrylate adhesives
Company: University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany
About the speaker:
Alexander, M.Sc., born in 1992 in Augsburg, studied Civil Engineering from 2011 to 2018 at TU Munich. He focused and specialized on structural mechanics. Since September 2018 he works at the Institute and Laboratory for Structural Engineering at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Geralt Siebert. His topic area is the mechanical behaviour of broken laminated safety glass with a main focus on the polymeric interlayer modelling.