Glass panes

Frame Loads. The window frame must develop the static design strength of the glass pane, r, given in Table II. Otherwise, the design is inconsistent with f rame assumptions, and the peak blast pressure capacity of the window assemblies will produce a failure rate in excess of the prescribed failure rate. This results... 

Figure 1. Peak blast pressure capacity for tempered glass panes a/b = 1.00, t = 1/4 and 5/16 in.

Figure 14. Distribution of lateral load transmitted by glass pane to the window frame.

In 1905, British inventor John C. Wood was working with cellulose and developed a method to adhere glass panes using celluloid as the adhesive. Wood s version of shatter-resistant glass was produced under the band name Triplex since it consisted of outer layers of glass with an inner layer of celluloid polymer. 

Boven [5] prepared polycarbonates consisting of dimethyl bisphenol cyclohexane and phosphine. Copolymers of dimethyl bisphenol cyclohexane with bisphenol and interfacial phosgene, (V), were also prepared and were used as glass panes because they exhibited enhanced scratch and molecular weight degradation resistance. 

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