Which is stronger: fiber glass or safety glass?

Question

what's the difference?

Answer 1

I would think Fiberglass stronger. It uses an Epoxy Resin to give it strength. Safety glass just not shatter as Dangerously when it does break.

Answer 2

These are two totally different materials. Fiberglass is made of strands of glass held together by a resin and is nothing like flat or architectural glass. When it fails it may crack, be punctured or even shatter, depending on the thickness and strength of the resin.

The term "safety glass" is a broad term and could apply to different types of glass. Most often people are talking about laminated glass, like in a car windshield. Two pieces of glass with a plastic (PVB) interlayer all stuck together. Another type is tempered glass. This is regular glass that is heated up in a specialized furnace and rapidly cooled.

Tempered is stronger and harder to break, but once it breaks, it goes into thousands of small pieces like the side window on a car. It's gone. Laminated is easier to crack. It will "spiderweb" but it holds together and usually stays in its opening after it's broken.

The best answer depends on the application. Fiberglass is less likely to break in most applications. Tempered glass is less likely to get damaged/scratched. And laminated is less likely to fail to the point of someone gaining entry to someplace.

There is also acrylic (Plexiglass), which scratches but is less likely to break than glass. Then there's polycarbonate. The GE Lexan brand was, and may still be, warrantied against breakage.

Answer 3

fibre glass