Fiberglass may be considered as glass for those who are not familiar with it. Today we are talking about the difference between fiberglass and tempered glass.

Tempered glass belongs to safety glass, is an improved version of glass, has the properties of ordinary glass, has a high impact strength, high bending strength and dispersed fine particles. Fiberglass is a composite material that can be reprocessed. And tempered glass is no longer recyclable.

FRP is known as fiberglass reinforced plastic. This is a composite material made of fiberglass and its products (fiberglass, tape, felt, yarn, etc.) as a reinforcing material and synthetic resin as the base material. The concept of a composite material means that one material cannot meet the requirements, and it is necessary to combine two or more materials to form another material that can meet the requirements of people, that is, a composite material. For example, fiberglass alone, although it has high strength, freely between fibers, can only withstand tensile forces, cannot withstand bending, shear and compressive stress and cannot easily be formed into a fixed geometry and is a soft body. If they are bonded with a synthetic resin, they can be turned into various rigid products with a fixed shape that can withstand tensile stress and withstand bending, compression and shear stress.

Tempered glass is actually a kind of pre-stressed glass. To increase the strength of glass, chemical or physical methods are commonly used to form compressive stresses on the surface of glass. When the glass is exposed to external force, the surface tension is first compensated, thereby improving the carrying capacity and increasing the resistance of the glass itself to wind pressure, cold and heat, impact and so on. Tempered glass is made by cutting, edging, washing and drying sheet glass in accordance with the requirements of the product, then heating it to a temperature close to the glass softening temperature and immediately cooling it quickly. The surface of tempered glass forms a uniform compressive stress, and the inner layer has a corresponding tensile stress, so tempered glass is a high-strength safety glass. Bending strength and toughness are more than four times higher than that of ordinary glass. After destruction, the fragments have the form of granules, which increases the safety of product use.