Glass Both in Overall Strength and in Breakage Patterns

Sheet glass
- It is used in mirrors, glazing of windows, framing purposes, strips for flooring and green house
glazing etc.
- The sheet glass is not considered good for aesthetic quality.
Plate glass
- This type of glass is often used to make windows, and it is also utilized in the manufacture of
mirrors, tables, and other objects which require extremely flat glass.
Float glass
- Commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windshields.
Annealed glass
- Glass becomes annealed if it is heated above a transition point then allowed to cool slowly,
without being quenched.
- Annealed glass is the most common glass used in windows. Annealed glass is also known as a
standard sheet of float glass.
Heat-strengthened glass
- Heat strengthened glass lies mid-range between annealed glass and thermally tempered
glass both in overall strength and in breakage patterns.
- The break patterns for heat strengthened glass very widely depending on the surface
compression and surface quality.
- Due to its increased strength, heat strengthened glass may be found in larger window panes or
in windows of buildings in high wind areas..
Tempered glass
- Tempered glass is also widely used in building, for frameless glass doors, slider doors or any
application where human contact and safety are considerations.
Laminated glass
- Laminated glass is strong but not as strong as tempered glass.
- Tempered glass and laminated glass have different properties. They are two different types of
glass but can be used together in some applications. Laminated, tempered glass is a common
marriage of the two types of glass. Separately, each type of glass has useful applications.
Wired glass
- It has excellent fire resistant ability.
- It is used in openings susceptible to fire spreading.
Patterned glass
- patterned glass is widely used in indoor decroation such as in the public place but also required
privace :office,meeting room,hospital,bathing room and also widely used as surferce of
furniture,shelf,lamp material .
Obscure
- commonly used in bathrooms and doors.
Spandrel
- an excellent material which gives the construction an amazing feel that enhances the building
outlook in a varied way. This is a very durable and strong type of glass which is an excellent
construction cover.
Reflective
- This type of glass is used in environmentally friendly construction with the goal of reducing heat
gain and loss, making structures much cheaper to heat and cool over the course of the year.
- A classic use of reflective glass is in building facades.
- Another use for reflective glass is in rooms where the climate needs to be tightly controlled, as
seen in some scientific labs. In this case, theglass can be one of several measures used to keep the
temperature inside the room as stable as possible.
Why glass is the red-hot

building material
Designers have found that glass fits nicely into today’s
green building environment
glass may be the greenest building material available
today. Why? It controls light, letting in the good
rays and keeping out the bad ones; it saves on
energy costs, providing natural daylighting; and it
harmonizes a structure with its environment.
For these reasons, and probably others as well,
designers have found that glass fits quite nicely
into today’s green building environment.
Thomas O’Connor, an architect at Smith
Group, Inc., based in Detroit, MI, puts it
bluntly. “I like a lot of glass in buildings, and that
is the trend in design today. Glass is back, and it’s
a 21st century material.”
A look at the content of today’s architectural
magazines shows that architects “have a fondness
for big expanses of glass,” he points out, “and I
don’t see that going away.”
Of course, it wasn’t always so, remembers
Russell J. Ebeid, president, Glass Group,
Guardian Industries Corp., Auburn Hills, MI.
In fact, in his opinion, the glass industry still
suffers from the 1973 oil embargo. “Glass was
going to be limited in its usage, and that image
still hurts to some extent,” he states. “Say big
walls and think heat loss. That’s the image we’ve
got.” Ebeid points out that other building
trades, such as cement, seem to “speak with a
clearer voice and get their message out in terms
of energy efficiency better than we [the glass
industry] have.”
The advantages of glass seem clear to O’Connor, however. What the industry has to do, in his
opinion, “is keep bringing out more energy-efficient and green products. We need more products with
higher thermal properties,” he states.
“I’ve been amazed at the glass products that have
become available, and their thermal properties.
I’ve also heard of higher performing products
that will become available.”
In terms of products, the glass industry has come
a long way since 1973, with primary glass manufacturers and fabricators bringing an increasing array
of energy-efficient glass products to market.
In the future, Ebeid advises looking for products that are more user- and environmentallyfriendly.
C. Greg Carney, technical director of the Glass
Association of North America (GANA), Topeka,
KS, also sees product improvements in the years to
come. “The future will likely bring continued
enhancements in glass coating and insulating

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Sheet glass

- Commonly used for windows, glass doors, transparent walls, and windshields.

- It is used in openings susceptible to fire spreading.

- A classic use of reflective glass is in building facades.

Why glass is the red-hot

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