Hello,
I am working on the sizing of a glass railing with glazing beads on 2 sides with free horizontal edges. I followed the webinar “Design of glass railing in RFEM6”. I followed exactly the same modeling, that is to say modeling the glazing bead areas.
However, when using a surface support blocking out-of-plane forces, I have stress peaks in the corners.
So I tried three different modeling approaches:
- Modeling the glazed surfaces with surface supports
- Linear support on the edges of the glass
- Surface support taking into account a stiffness
- The out-of-plane surface fixity creates a clamping that does not exist in reality given that the width of the glazing bead is 25mm in my case and that the seal is rather flexible.
- When I use linear supports, I also have a peak at the corner and when I refine the mesh the stresses increase…
Do you have any advice or tips on the modeling?
Thank you for your help!