- Author
- Norville, H. S. | Bove, P. M. | Sheridan, D. L.
- Title
- Strength of New Annealed Window Glass Lites With Security Films.
- Coporate
- Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock
- Journal
- Journal of Structural Engineering, [date unknown]
- Keywords
- windows | glass | catings | films | tests | failure | thickness | statistics
- Identifiers
- annealed (AN) monolithic window glass; security film
- Abstract
- A full scale experimental investigation of the strength of new, monolithic, annealed window glass lites coated with security film on one side was conducted. Two samples, each comprised of 20 new window glass lite specimens, one having an edge-to-edge application of security film and the other having a daylight application of security film, were tested to failure. During the tests the specimens were simply supported continuously along all four edges and loaded with a uniform loading. In each test, the side of the window glass lite to which the security film was applied was placed in tension. The failure strengths of the two samples were compared with the failure strength of a sample of new, monolithic, annealed window glass lites having the same nominal dimensions. Two findings are presented. First, the probability distribution of failure strength of the sample with the edge-to-edge application of security film was statistically no different from that of the sample of new, monolithic, annealed window glass without security film. Second, the strength of the sample with the daylight application of security film was significantly lower than that of the sample of new, monolithic, annealed window glass.