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Learn how glass fiber wallcovering is making a strong comeback in North America due to its sustainable characteristics.

A look inside the process of creating fiber optic cables.

The Simpson Strong-Tie® Composite Strengthening Systems™ was used to restore and strengthen 6 distressed cast-in-place concrete grain silos with a combination of carbon and glass FRP, meeting a tight timeline and budget. Project Information Project Category: Silo Repair and Strengthening Project Size: 6 silos x 30ʹ in diameter, up to 21.5′ from the foundation Project … Continue reading "Case Study: Shoring Up Aging Concrete Grain Silos with Fiber-Reinforced Polymer"

Owens Corning senior research associate Kevin Spoo offers best practices on some of the variations available in glass fiber reinforcements for composites.

While fiberglass is more expensive. the benefits of using it for your windows outweigh the drawbacks.

You can paint circuits on virtually any material — wood, paper, fabric, glass, etc.

A new generation of lenses - metalenses - is starting to replace bulky curved lenses with simple, flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light. These flat surfaces - meatsurfaces - have enabled the design of diffraction-based flat devices to replicate the functionalities of conventional lenses with sub-wavelength or few-wavelength thicknesses. Researchers have now successfully designed and experimentally demonstrated an inverse-designed metalens to operate at a near-infrared wavelength.

Here are seven ways glass helps improve defense equipment from weight and power consumption to optical applications such as lasers or fiber optics.

Mercedes and McLaren use smart glass that can darken to opaque; your next car might, too.

Optical fibers usually have a solid glass core. But experimentation in Germany has revealed that a certain type of optical fiber is particularly well-suited for ultraviolet light: a microstructured photonic crystal fiber with a special pattern consisting of triangles and of hexagons in a regular arrangement. The structure is able to guide UV laser light without being damaged and with acceptable loss.