Recently seen steady popularity of the use of glassware in the design of buildings, including for external glazing.Current manufacturing techniques allow to obtain clean glass absolutely any shape and size.However, no matter how beautiful it may be, it does not make it the most protected from mechanical damage.In fact, in the fall of glass at least a few centimeters it initially covered with small cracks and then suddenly falls apart.But engineers have taken into account this point, and so now almost all the facade interior design uses a special type of tempered glass.How is it so popular and what are its characteristics?
what it is?By
Standard Tempered glass is a material which, when heated to a temperature of production of 650-700 degrees centigrade, and then quenched to a minimum.Thus, due to the difference in the process of heating the heat treatment, i.e. hardening.Typically, the output of such a material is characterized by high reliability and impact resistance.Experts estimate that this type of tempered glass is 4 times stronger than that which is usually called stalinite.In addition, pay attention to the safety of its use.Fragments of this material are smaller cutting properties.At the same time ordinary stalinite Falling splits into hundreds of small grains of glass, which dig into the skin so quickly, the pain of their presence under the skin occurs only in the following days.Shards of tempered glass is characterized by a blunt edges, which prevents the risk of serious injury to man.
Dimensions
production of tempered glass is carried out on a special technical equipment, the size of the resulting material can be as follows:
- length and width - from 200 to 3600 mm;
- thickness - from 4 to 19 millimeters.
Before tempered glass, choose the required master its size and the ability to crop it to the desired shape.Why can not handle such glass after quenching?The fact that the surface of the material along with the high strength makes it impossible to make any change in its shape.This means that the cutting and drilling surface hardened parts just does not make sense.It should be noted that the glass can be tempered only by means of complicated technical equipment.Just heat on the stove a piece of glass, and quickly put it in cold water, you do not get.Such material simply fall apart into small pieces, or at best simply will crack.Therefore, if you want to temper the glass, refer this request to specialized companies that provide similar services.
Technical features Temperature range of the material ranges from -150 to +300 degrees Celsius.And this despite the fact that Stalin was able to withstand the temperature drop is only 40 degrees.In this connection, an increasing number of construction companies asked the question "how and where to temper the glass for external glazing?"
