Laminated glass is commonly used to design floors, stairs or railings, but unlike design
procedures at ambient temperature, there is no comprehensive information available on the
behaviour of glass components during the fire. The submitted project proposal focuses on the
description of the thermal and mechanical properties of soda-lime glass at elevated
temperatures to obtain data for the components of the fully coupled thermo-mechanical
constitutive material model that will be used in finite element simulations. Experiments and
models will be performed for laminated glass without and with surface modifications affecting
the thermal and strength properties of soda-lime glass. The resulting thermo-mechanical
material model for soda-lime glass simulating the behaviour of a glass structural elements
subjected to combined temperature and sustained loads will be validated by performing small
and large scale tests in fire furnace.