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In peacetime, the design of residential, commercial and other facilities
mainly consider the function, aesthetic and constructability of the building.
However, for the functional and aesthetic nature of these buildings in the
design life, we need to consider many low probability natural disasters and
vicious attacks, such as a hundred years' storm, flood, fire, earthquake and the
threat of terrorist attacks. A large number of glass materials used in buildings
are a relatively weak link in the structure of the building. According to
investigation and statistics, in the various factors that cause injuries, the
damage caused by spattered broken glass and shrapnel is more prominent than the
direct damage caused by explosion, and casualties are related to glass.
Just after the "Tianjin Binhai New Area 8.12 Big Bang", in addition to meet
all fire explosion in general burns and building collapse crushed, the explosion
has many of the wounded are blasting glass scratches, injuries, eventually
causing significant casualties. The accident once again gave the world a alarm,
and the use of glass has also aroused the attention of the society.
Glass refers to toughened glass, laminated glass, and other glass products
processed by tempered or laminated glass, such as insulating glass, fireproof
glass and smashing glass, which conform to the current national standard. Glass
is mainly used in automobiles, trains, ships, aircraft, household appliances and
other industrial fields, as well as buildings, decoration and other industries.
Among them, with the rapid development of high-rise buildings in recent years,
the maturity and innovation of building technology and the continuous
improvement of people's awareness of glass, the development of building glass at
home and abroad is particularly fast.
At present, a series of high performance building glass has been developed
and applied abroad, including: anti hurricane glass glass, anti invasion glass,
fireproof glass, anti-theft glass and so on. Take the United States as an
example, the anti hurricane glass has been forced to use in the states along the
coast of Florida and Texas along the coast of the Atlantic, and has successfully
saved many properties and lives in recent years. Burglar glass is used in some
civil houses and shops.
At present, domestic glass mainly develops in two directions: first,
improving product quality, focusing on appearance, light transmittance and
flatness; two, strengthening product functions, highlighting products, energy
saving, environmental protection, intelligence and other characteristics. In
building glass, to improve the impact strength of glass and reduce or eliminate
the two time of injury, we should strengthen other comprehensive functions such
as burglar prevention, sound insulation, thermal insulation, energy saving and
other comprehensive functions to become a new trend of development. At the same
time, the emergence of some new intelligent glass has also greatly enriched the
building glass market.
