Materials Science
8 years ago

Tempered glass shatters faster than you think, posing safety risks.

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Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan
Generation of Secondary Cracks in Tempered Soda-Lime-Silica Glass
Shin-ichi ARATANI, Yutaka Yamauchi, Kiyoshi OGINOH, Kiyoshi Takahashi

Paper Summary

The researchers studied how cracks form in tempered glass by using high-speed photography. They found that most secondary cracks appear within 1 millisecond after the main crack starts.

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