Before you begin to speak of the importance of our security at the wheel the car windows, it seemed appropriate to go to Wikipedia to show the definition of -real windshield protagonist of this post. Here goes:
The windshield surface is transparent or translucent, also called, or front window glass (the material that is usually done); I usually use vehicles (airplane, boat, car, bus, and bike, train …) to protect the driver from wind, rain, insect’s stroke, etc. Allow better visibility and comfort for driving.
Modern windscreen are usually made of laminated safety glass, these consist of two glass sheets with a layer of security laminate including polycarbonate. Before 1940 the windshields used in automotive vehicles fell forward upon impact, then tempered glass are used, these impact upon exploding being highly dangerous for the driver. Technical progress led to the present laminated glass windshield giving greater security guarantee, this glass upon impact explodes without releasing hazardous to the occupants particles.
The fact of having shown the definition is neither to occupy space or did not know how to begin. Is that sometimes, to understand it right, you need to go to the root of them. Well, and ant s entering the field right away- I’m going to tell you a story in first person that reflects very clearly the importance in our safety car windows, in this case the windshield when I started driving, and in my first car, it occurred to me that on a road trip I jumped over a sweety .
The moment I did not realize. It was to stop when I discovered the little “hole” of the crystal. I consulted with my father, without giving too much importance, and he said: “Fix the windshield immediately, because you can fall over. Since then, I have taken into account the “glassy” state of my vehicle.
Broken windshield
And now, on to the topic. A few days ago, one of the most important in the field of the moons of auto windshields – has presented the study: “The Windshield: decisive preventive road safety component”.
The windshield is a basic structural component to safety on board the car, being a vital element for the safety of the occupants because it depends largely on the strength of the roof in case of collision and rollover.
And for example, a button: automobile moons bring the 30% of the strength in the vehicle structure, thus maintaining their preservation is essential to reduce the risks and insecurity at the wheel and a priority in the field of prevention. A small defect in the crystal, caused for example by the impact of a stone, reduces its strength up to 70%.
Moons are also essential for the roof of the vehicle in a collision or overturn. Dynamic Tests have shown that when the car roof collapses less than 10 cm, insurance, automotive glazing resist and prevent them from being thrown or broken. In the case of airbag if the windshield is not well adhered to the glass blowing deployed and results in serious injury to occupants.