Brittle materials like glass break in a completely different way to metals. Whereas metals deform before breaking, glass fractures abruptly. However, physicists from the University of Montpellier and ...

At Corning’s headquarters in upstate New York, three people in bulky masks and silvery, spacesuit-like gear are working the research furnaces. They move gracefully and in harmony. They have to, to ...

After 2,000 years of making and breaking glass, one might think there would be a definitive answer. But at the Third International Workshop on the Flow and Fracture of Advanced Glasses, held Oct. 2 to ...

A process of providing controlled defects in glass (Figure 1) can be employed to help the research and evaluation of methods to enhance the glass fracture resistance. The effect of different ...

A PLAUSIBLE explanation 1 of delayed fracture of glass is that cracks initially present in the unstressed material gradually extend when glass is loaded. As the cracks extend, the stress at the ends ...

Laminated glass is a type of safety glass, where multiple layers of glass are bound together using a transparent interlayer material. Laminated glass is an excellent material for windows in the ...

Glass windows often endure external environmental factors such as wind, rain, and humidity, which lead to the formation of microcracks in their surface. For instance, a gust of wind can propel sand ...