SAFETY GLASS
When glass breaks, it often falls apart in shards and pieces. Safety is therefore an important aspect with glass. To prevent accidents and injury damage, safety glass is used in many places. Safety glass is the general term for glass with injury-resistant breaking behaviour.
FEATURES OF SAFETY GLASS
There are roughly two different types of safety glass: laminated glass and toughened glass. They are both safety glass, but have different characteristics.
Laminated glass consists of at least two sheets of glass with a special PVB film in between, (PVB stands for 'polyvinyl butyral'). In the factory, the glass sheets and film are fused together under high heat. The foil ensures that when the glass breaks, it still stays together as one piece. This prevents openings in the glass that could cause injuries.
Tempered glass is as much as five times stronger than standard glass. If it does break, it falls apart in small pieces that cannot cause deep injuries. This makes it safer than standard glass. To make toughened glass so strong, it is heated extremely during the production process and then cooled quickly. The resulting surface tension makes the glass extra strong.
APPLICATION
Laminated glass is perfect for applications where there is a risk that a person could fall through it, such as balustrades or railings. In addition to being injury-resistant, tempered glass also has burglary-resistant properties. Because the glass is stronger than standard glass, burglars have more difficulty breaking it.
The benefits of safety glass:
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