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Glass

Glass is a versatile building material made from sand, soda ash, and lime. It has unique transparent and glazing properties useful for architectural applications like windows, doors, and partitions. Glass is manufactured by melting raw materials in furnaces and then shaping the molten glass through various processes like pressing, blowing, or drawing to produce different types such as sheet glass, float glass, laminated glass, and toughened glass.

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Glass

Glass is a versatile building material made from sand, soda ash, and lime. It has unique transparent and glazing properties useful for architectural applications like windows, doors, and partitions. Glass is manufactured by melting raw materials in furnaces and then shaping the molten glass through various processes like pressing, blowing, or drawing to produce different types such as sheet glass, float glass, laminated glass, and toughened glass.

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GLASS AS BUILDING MATERIAL

Prepared by
Priyansh Tank
Guide name
Prof. Dhval A. Jalalpara
GLASS AS BUILDING MATERIAL
 Glass Building Material is a mixture of raw materials
like silica, sodium potassium carbonate, lime or lead
oxide, manganese oxide which are grounded, sieved, and
mixed in specific proportion to make glass.
 Glass Building Material has unique properties as
a transparent glazing material in the construction
industry.
 It has various architectural applications in doors,
windows, partitions, etc.
WHAT IS GLASS ?
 Glass Building Material is one of the oldest & multifaceted
materials utilizing in the building industry. Glass has been used
to enhance the aesthetic view of structure and is fascinating
material ever since it was discovered
 It is an open hard substance created by giving heat to sand or
quartz, glass forms an inorganic, transparent, or translucent
material which can be molded into any shape.
MANUFACTURING
 The basic raw material for the manufacturing of good
quality glass is silica, which in nature occurs as quartz,
the material melts at 1700C and is cooled rapidly
without allowing it to undergo recrystallization.
 Quartz and other desired components are heated in
special melting furnace.
 The molten glass comes out, rather flows, from these
furnaces continuously.
 Various glass shapes are obtained from this molten glass
by one of the following process.
MANUFACTURING

 Pressing:- moulds of the required shapes are filled with


the molten glass. It is then cooled while under desired
pressure.

 Blowing:-air is blown in a controlled manner through the


molten glass in proper containers. This air pressure drags
the glass liquid to a desired shape.

 Drawing:-in this process, stream of molten glass is made


to pass through the molten rolls. It comes out from the
other side in the desired drawn from on cooling.
TYPES OF GLASS
 Sheet or Flat Glass
 Float Glass

 Laminated Glass

 Wired Glass

 Tinted Glass

 Toughened Glass

 Extra-clean / Self-cleaning Glass

 Glass Blocks
1. SHEET OR FLAT GLASS

 Sheet glass is produced by having molten glass pass


through the rollers to manufacture a nearly flat finish.
 Sheet glass can be cut via a glass cutter and no special
equipment is needed. It’s generally available in the
market in a range of standard sizes/thicknesses.
2. FLOAT GLASS
 Float glass is made from sodium silicate and calcium
silicate, it is also known as soda-lime glass.
 The “Float” name suggests the method used to
manufacture it, where the molten glass is floated onto a
bed of molten tin. This gives us a flat, clear, distortion-
free glass.
3. LAMINATED GLASS
 This type of glass is commonly UV and
soundproof, which explains its applications in
the construction of bridges and aquariums. It is mostly
the best suited for making glass canopies as it can reduce
harmful rays.
 This glass comprising of 2 sheets of toughened glass and
a laminate in the middle portion. This is typically 6mm
toughened/2.28mm laminate/6mm toughened.
4. WIRED GLASS
 Wired glass building material has a wire mesh provided
in the middle portion of the structure of glass.
 The main objective of the wire is to hold the glass
together in the event of cracking or breaking, however, it
doesn’t stop the glass from forming sharp pieces when
broken.
5. TINTED GLASS
 Tinted glass building material is simply colored
glass. A certain type of ion is added to the normal glass
mix to produce colored glass.
 In tinted glass, color doesn’t affect the properties of
glass.
6. TOUGHENED GLASS

 Toughened glass is used extensively throughout the


industry for its ability to resist breaking, also
called safety or tempered glass.
 Toughened glass is typically used in home interiors such
as the kitchen (for its heat resistance), and shower
screens, glass balustrade, and swimming pool fencing.
7. EXTRA CLEAN/SELF CLEANING
GLASS

 Self-cleaning glass is both photocatalytic &


hydrophobic.
 These two unique properties make it stain-
proof, resulting in an attractive appearance and easy
maintenance.
8. GLASS BLOCKS
 Glass blocks or Hollow glass wall blocks are
manufactured as two separate halves and, while the glass
is still molten, these two pieces are pressed together and
annealed.
 The resulting glass block will have a partial vacuum at
the hollow center.
PROPERTIES OF GLASS
 Transparency
 Work-ability and Recycle Property

 Strength

 Transmittance

 U Value

 Hardness
ADVANTAGES OF GLASS
 Transparency Is Good
 Dust-proof and Waterproof

 Color Availability

 Aesthetically Appealing

 Recyclable

 Weather and Rust resistant

 Easily Molded

 Insulator of Electricity
DISADVANTAGES OF GLASS
 Cost Is High
 Glass Is a Brittleness

  Impact Resistant Is Low

 Corrosion Due To Alkali Solution

 Unsafe For Earthquake

 Maintenance Cost Is High

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