ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT: Glass is a fragile elastic material. The impact is one of the most important factors in the design of glass load bearing elements. In glazing terms, the word safety is applied to glass which is capable of reducing the risk of injury from accidental actions of impact, fracture or shattering. Laminated glass consists of a sandwich of glass plates and interlayers that keep the glass fragments in place after the impact, so that the possibility of injury is minimised. This paper focuses on tests of three different glass panels: new laminated glass panels, old laminated glass panels (15 year storage in laboratory) and Float glass panels (only new). All of the testing tools (impact body, steel frame, impact mechanism) used for the presented tests were built by the authors of this paper according to the standard DIN EN 12600.