Properties of Glass
A ready reference containing the electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties of different types of glass.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Properties of Glass
Interdependency in Properties of Glass
The properties of glass are usually inter-dependent. This means that it is not easy to vary one property of glass without changing its other property. A brief on electrical, thermal, mechanical and optical properties of glass is as follows:
Electrical
Electrical properties of glass include the volume resistivity, tangent loss and electrical permittivity.
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Volume resistivity: Glass is an electric insulator. This means that it provides high amount of resistance to the flow of electricity through itself. The property that measures the resistance to the flow of electricity in the body of glass is known as volume resistivity. The volume resistivity of glass is almost 1018 times of the best electric conductor, copper.
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Tangent loss: This property measures the amount of electricity lost in any glass while the electricity is flowing through it.
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Electrical Permittivity: This property is a measure of the amount of electricity that a glass can store in itself without conducting any.
| Note | to view the electrical properties of different types of glass. |
Mechanical
Mechanical properties of glass are a measurement of the behavior of glass when subjected to different types of forces. The properties that are used to depict the mechanical behavior of different types of glass are as follows:
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Tensile strength: This property measures the maximum amount of stress that the glass can take without breaking.
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Poisson s ratio: When stress is applied to any glass, lateral and axial strain is introduced in it. The ratio of the lateral strain to...
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