Toughened glass failures

摘要

A reporter believes from theirexperience that toughened glass thathas been heat-soaked in compliancewith BS EN 14179 is many timesless likely to shatter spontaneouslythan toughened glass that has notbeen heat-soaked, and consequentlymany designers specify heat-soakedtoughened glass to minimise the riskof broken toughened glass falling frombuildings. Nevertheless, glass hasfallen from buildings, there have beennear misses and people have beenalarmed by breakages.