What type of glass is used for vehicles?

Posted by allprowindshield on April 4th, 2017

Glass is one of those useful materials known to man many centuries before Christ.  It is extensively used in various fields including automotive.  Based on its use, the manufacturing method of glass also changes.  In fact, the modern scientists are wonderstruck about the technical advancement of ancient people when they found glass slab of huge volume in one single piece.  They say it requires an extensive manufacturing technology to produce such a massive slab with flawless transparency.  Why they have produced such a huge slab still remains as unsolved mystery to modern scientists.  Natural glass is found in nature due to the volcanic activity.  However it is one of those important materials used for industrial and domestic purpose produced by using ceramic oxides.

Some of the varieties of glass produced at present are divided under these categories such as flat or float glass, container glass, cut glass, optical glass, fiber glass and the glass used for automotive glass and windshield glass is used belongs to flat glass.  Therefore one can imagine the technology used for the production of various types of glass demand specific manufacturing technologies. Therefore glass manufacturing industries are based on the specific type of glass they are going to produce and market.  Some industries are known for the specific type of glass they manufacture and the glasses are known by the manufacturer’s name.  Almost the glass and manufacturer name become a synonym to each other.

Conventional method of manufacturing produced glass having brittle in quality and when automobiles are met with the accident, more than the impact of collision or accident, the victims are used to suffer from the glass pieces broken due to the impact of accidents.  Even though the accident is minor, where the chance of regaining their normal health and normal routine of life are found to prone to broken glass from windshield, window glass and so on shrew all over the place.  The damage is fatal more than often.  Affordable auto glass, Houston Tx has adopted modern technology where the automotive glass is made out using a method where despite being broken the pieces are held in place without spreading in the entire accident area. 

Even though there are number of varieties of glass is produced across the globe using various types of raw materials, some of the raw materials used for the production is silica, sand, soda ash, limestone, sodium oxide and calcium oxide.  To improve hardness and chemical durability lime is added to each batch. 

To produce safety glass, after the production of thin sheets of glass they are laminated on one another using a thin sheet of plastic.  In other words, this plastic sheet is sandwiched between two layers of glass.  When laminated glass is broken the pieces are held together by this plastic sheet thus minimizes the effect of broken glass in case of accident or collision.  Modern laminated glass can be used and it can be further processed like drilling, cutting and machining unlike conventional sandwiched glass.  The process of fitting the windshield to a car or any vehicle is known as encapsulation. 

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