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BUILDING
MATERIAL
PROPERTIES OF GLASS
The properties of glass are mainly governed by
factors
such as composition of the constituents, state of
surface, thermal treatment conditions, dimensions of
specimen, etc.
The following are the properties of glass which have
made
glass popular and useful.
(1) It absorbs, refracts or transmits light.
(2) It can take up a high polish and may be used as
substitute for every costly gems.
(3) It has no definite crystalline structure.
(4) It has no sharp melting point.
(5) It is affected by alkalis.
TYPES OF GLASS
Curtain walling
Partitioning
Balcony railing
Roof Construction
Doors
Used in bathrooms
Frosted glass is used on bathroom
windows to allow light but not
visibility ,it is also used in steam rooms
and shower cubicles
Disadvantages of glass
Glass also comes with the disadvantage of being heavier and more
difficult to handle as it is easily breakable.
Thermal insulation
Solar control
Solar control glass is glass designed to
reduce or prevent solar heating of
buildings. There are two approaches
that can be used:
The glass is either tinted (colored)
throughout the material (called a "body
tint") or it has a microscopically thin
and transparent coating on one side.
Wired glass
Wire mesh glass has a grid or mesh of
thin metalwireembedded within the
glass.
Despite this belief, wired glass is
actually weaker than unwired glass due
to the incursions of the wire into the
structure of the glass.
Noise control
CONCLUSION
It can thus be easily appreciated that
glass, though used for thousands of
years, is just beginning to be understood
and it is still possible to get a variety of
glasses with certain chemical additives.
We recommend the use of glass as it
offers a variety of functions and at the
same time its aesthetic value.