Characterization of Laminated Safety Glass Interlayers

Miriam Schuster, born in 1990 in Luxembourg, studied Civil Engineering from 2009 to 2014 at University of Luxembourg and TU Darmstadt. She focused and specialized on structural engineering. After working in the Luxembourgish engineering office Schroeder&Associés she returned to TU Darmstadt in February 2016 as a researcher in the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Design (ISM+D). In January 2022, she successfully defended her phd thesis with the topic “Characterization of laminated safety glass interlayers – Thermorheology, Crystallinity and Viscoelasticity”. Since then, she has been heading the glass and polymer unit of ISM+D as a postdoctoral researcher.

• Introduction.- Theoretical background.- General description of the experimental methods.- Investigation of the semicrystalline structure of EVA and ionoplastic interlayers.-  Identification of time-superposition principles for EVA and ionoplastic interlayers.- Determination of the linear viscoelastic behaviour and linearity limits for PVB.- Characterization of the nonlinear viscoelastic behaviour of PVB.- Application to engineering practice.- Summary and outlook Bibliography.- Appendix.- A Additional data.- B List of publications, presentations and workshops.