TOUGHENED GLASS
When it comes to using glass in a building – whether inside or out – the first concern that pops up is ‘safety’. Glass has a tendency to shatter and scatter in the event of breakage, ultimately leading to injury. With toughened glass, this problem is solved. Using special thermal or chemical manufacturing process, sheets of glass are pressed together that creates a compressive force on the outer layers and a tensile force in the glass interior. Owing to this process, when a toughened glass breaks, there is no ‘shatter and scatter’ phenomenon – instead, you see clumps or grains of glass fallen apart, in a small radius.
It is because of this amazing property that toughened glass is widely used in hazard-prone applications (glass installations for cars, public transport, architectural purposes, diving equipment, etc.). Toughened glass also has the amazing property of augmented strength because of the manufacturing process it goes through.
