The difference between plexiglass and tempered glass
1. Plexiglass is a kind of light art glass. This kind of glass is actually a post-processed plastic glass. Its corrosion resistance, moisture resistance and sun resistance are quite good, and it also has certain sound insulation. Tempered glass is what we often call safety glass. After this kind of glass is damaged by external force, its fragments will only form small obtuse particles similar to honeycomb, which will not cause any harm to human body.
2. In terms of essential materials, plexiglass is a synthetic plastic product, while tempered glass is a product obtained by tempering ordinary glass. The impact strength and bending strength of tempered glass with the same thickness are 3-5 times that of ordinary glass. Tempered glass has good thermal stability and can withstand three times the temperature difference of ordinary glass and the temperature difference change of 200℃.
3. Plexiglass is light in weight, good in toughness, bending resistance and machinability, and inferior to tempered glass in hardness, wear resistance, strength, impact resistance and transparency. The disadvantage of tempered glass is that it is heavy and cannot be processed (the shape or hole should be processed before tempering treatment, etc. ), and its peripheral side end face has poor impact resistance and low self-explosion probability (self-explosion without any warning). The advantages are good strength (standing and dancing is no problem), good wear resistance, high transparency, and non-sharp grain after rupture.
4. If a resin membrane is sandwiched between two ordinary glasses and treated at high temperature and high pressure, safe bulletproof tempered glass can be manufactured. This kind of glass has good strength and will not fall off even if it is broken.
What are the uses of plexiglass?
Plexiglass is widely used in business, chemical industry, light industry, architecture, advertising decoration, sand table model and other fields, such as signs, light box panels, billboards, Chinese and English letter panels and so on. As for the application of plexiglass in any field, it mainly depends on the product design, and then choose the color and variety of plexiglass to achieve good results. With good modeling design, it depends on careful processing and production to become exquisite handicrafts.
1. Architecture: In the field of architecture, plexiglass is generally made into windows, sound-proof doors and windows, lighting covers, telephone booths, etc.
2. Transportation: In the field of transportation, plexiglass is usually made into doors and windows of trains, cars and other vehicles.
3. Medicine: In the field of medical application, plexiglass can be made into various surgical medical instruments and baby incubators.
4. Civil use: For civil use, plexiglass can be used to make bathroom facilities, handicrafts, cosmetics, brackets, aquariums and other products.
5. Advertising: In the field of advertising, plexiglass can be made into light boxes, signboards, signs, booths, etc.
6. Industry: In the industrial field, plexiglass can be made into instrument panels and protective covers.
7. Lighting: In the field of lighting, plexiglass can be made into fluorescent lamps, chandeliers and lampshades for street lamps.
8. Home: In the home field, plexiglass can be used to make fruit bowls, tissue boxes, acrylic art paintings and other household items.
There is a great difference between plexiglass and tempered glass. plexiglass is made of plastic, while tempered glass is made of ordinary glass, which is essentially different. What are the uses of plexiglass? As can be seen from the above introduction, plexiglass is widely used in all walks of life.