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Glass color analysis: Spectrophotometry in mass construction

Time: 2018-01-04

Glass Color Analysis: The Role of Spectrophotometry in Mass Building Materials

 

My family lives in a school full of crowds, so I will not be excited when we're setting up two new schools in the community and letting our kids go back to the class's smaller, real classroom. The new school was completed last spring and boasted the glittering state-of-the-art buildings on the floor-to-ceiling windows. These beautiful buildings, like glass curtain walls, are all modern buildings, and glass is the main character and choice of building materials. In addition to being aesthetically appealing, glass colors offer a host of features including thermal insulation, daylight reflectance, sophisticated protection, and many other technical features. Glass color analysis plays an important role in the production and manufacture of glass, making it simple and easy to use with modern spectrophotometers.

Skyscraper glass color
Glass is a major choice in modern architecture and offers the ability to optimize functionality
Credit: Ricardo Diaz, Flickr user
The importance of glass color in building applications
 
Although glass color and reflectance values ​​are used for a variety of functional features, the greatest demand for glass color analysis may be "high cost" to ensure designer's creative and artistic intent and minimize color panel replacement in the structure For many designers, the goal is to create a transparent masterpiece that opens up new natural landscapes or unique perspectives on the world around us, such as the glass balcony of the Sears Tower or the iconic crystal glass pyramid that forms the Lourvre Museum in France. The reflective quality of glass provides aesthetic appeal as well as the value of daylight reflection, but the absence of a suitable color measuring instrument creates a challenge in the cohesion of the glass color. Buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, are due to the glass creating significant design elements and have been crafted to be a popular tourist destination insisting on the integrity of the design and the artist's intentions.
Sears balcony glass color
Sears Tower's glass balconies increase 1,300 feet above the city streets. Transparent glass color provides a stunning perspective and perspective, but strength is structurally safe enough to stand.
Picture credit: Flickr user Basharat Alam Shah
Glass provides an almost limitless medium for creativity and can be manipulated into almost any form and / or color of building material. The integrity and consistency of glass color is critical to design and function and requires continuous spectroscopic monitoring throughout the production process to ensure product quality transparency, color and reflectance are all measurable with spectrophotometers and advanced technology Make this process easy.
Round window glass color
Glass is beautiful and practical. When used as a building material, glass can take almost any form, color or shape and offers endless possibilities for architectural design
Picture credit: Flickr user momo
Spectrophotometer and glass color analysis
 
Glass color measurement is achieved in two ways: by transmission measurement or reflection value. When measuring glass products with functional or aesthetic coatings, transmission and reflection measurements work together to achieve accurate color analysis. The transmissivity value indicates how the color looks from the inside, and the reflection value indicates the color perspective viewed from the outside.
 
3NH is a leader in glass color measurement and has developed various spectrophotometers for a variety of applications and uses. We specialize in the color measurement of glass building materials and understand the challenges associated with a wide range of coatings, colors and gloss. Our spectrophotometers utilize state-of-the-art technology to provide accurate and quantitative color measurements, and even to measure the thickness of AR (Anti-reflection) and other coatings. Over the years, we have worked with many leaders in the glass manufacturing industry and become trusted brands in the industry. Contact 3NH to learn more about color measurement in the glass and building supply industries.

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