steveeee
Civil/Environmental
- Apr 30, 2012
- 1
hi, i'm planning to build a bubble panel (a.k.a bubble wall). its like a tall, wide but very narrow fish tank but no fish, just bubbles.
i think the usual way to build them is acrylic sheets but that is quite expensive. i'd like to use standard (not tempered) 10mm window glass and the size of the tank will be 180cm high, 150cm wide and 1cm deep (front to back i mean).
i plan to use a piece of the same 10mm glass for the side walls, laying flat, about 3cm wide, and use 2 part epoxy glue to glue the sandwich of 3 pieces (front, back and side wall) together. i tested the glue join and its stronger than the glass.
my question is, the static pressure of 180cm head of water. do you think that will be a problem for this design? will the glass break? i have really no idea how to work that out.
thanks, steve
i think the usual way to build them is acrylic sheets but that is quite expensive. i'd like to use standard (not tempered) 10mm window glass and the size of the tank will be 180cm high, 150cm wide and 1cm deep (front to back i mean).
i plan to use a piece of the same 10mm glass for the side walls, laying flat, about 3cm wide, and use 2 part epoxy glue to glue the sandwich of 3 pieces (front, back and side wall) together. i tested the glue join and its stronger than the glass.
my question is, the static pressure of 180cm head of water. do you think that will be a problem for this design? will the glass break? i have really no idea how to work that out.
thanks, steve