The failure strength of glass, a non transparent value

F.A.Veer and T.Riemslag, Delft University of Technology & T. Romein, van Noordenne glas groep

The tendency in modern architecture to use glass in a structural role means that the engineering properties of glass need to be known more accurately. The most important of these is the failure strength of glass in bending. Although considerable work on this has been done and published in the last two glass processing days there are still many open questions dealing primarily with the correct statistical description of the strength of glass. Secondly there is no fixed procedure for determining the design stress of glass. Experiments using sufficiently large series of specimens on different types of glasses treated in several ways have been conducted. The results show that the treatments influence the statistical distribution. A theory is proposed that explains these differences.

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The Authors

Dr. Frederic Veer Dr. Delft University of Technology Frederic Veer has been involved in glass research since 1995, developing new combinations and structures which use glass as a structural material in innovative ways. Currently the author is head of a ... Read more