Laminated safety glass (VSG) consists of at least two layers of glass bonded together by a polymeric interlayer. This has the advantage that, in the event of a breakage, glass fragments adhere to the interlayer, and the laminate retains residual load-bearing capacity. To characterize the post-breakage behavior, tensile and bending tests can be performed on fractured VSG. For this purpose, VSG made of thermally tempered glass or annealed glass (float glass), which has been broken in either a defined or undefined manner, can be used.

Possible focus areas for a thesis could include:

- Development of a method for the reproducible production of VSG panes with varying degrees of fragmentation. The fragmentation levels should reflect those observed in head impact tests on windshields.

- Conducting tensile and bending tests on fragmented VSG panes and interpreting the results.