Process and test specimen for determining the adhesion to glass of interlayers for laminated glass by the tensile shear test

摘要

Glass laminates used as safety glass consist of several sheets of glass united by adhesive interlayers. The bond strength of such interlayers may be determined in simple manner using a special test specimen by the tensile shear test. The test specimen is parallelipiped- like and the individual sheets thereof are divided each to form an obtuse fracture, the fractures facing the interlayer being staggered. The minimum force required for detaching the interlayer from the individual sheets of the glass laminate is taken as a measure for the bond strength.