design guide for glass parts
design guide for glass parts
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I am looking for a guide for designing glass lab ware. The plastics suppliers have good literature that describes the capabilities of the materials and process but I have not found that for glass yet. Can you please show me where to find it?





RE: design guide for glass parts
"Scientific Glassblowing" by E. L Wheeler and G. Ross Robertson
and
"Scientific and industrial glass blowing and laboratory techniques" by W. E Barr
I am an experienced scientific glassblower, so if you have any further questions I will be happy to help. What is it that you are trying to do? Thanks.
RE: design guide for glass parts
It looks like the production processes for glass are mature. The first book was from 1969 and the other is from 1949.
RE: design guide for glass parts
Some technical properties are here:
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Glass Terminology, including mention of applicable ASTM & Federal specifications:
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Looks like lots of info here, too:
http://www.glassproperties.com/
Tubing can be made by extrusion & vials by highly automated blow forming within molds. These processes for glass forming are given in manufacturing processes & materials textbooks. See 'Glass container industry' at
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I've only seen manifolds made for specific projects, by a scientific glassblower. The Handbook of Materials for Product Design has a chapter on 'Inorganic Glasses' which includes a viscosity vs. temperature plot for various glasses (p. 8.4 in 3rd Edn., original source is Corning).
A significant difference between plastic & glass forming (besides the higher temperature) is that glassware requires an annealing step afterwards.