Usable Glass Strength Coalition

Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By April Gocha / December 30, 2015

Alcoa signs with Boeing, Materials Technologies moves forward, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for December 30, 2015.

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Usable Glass Strength Coalition issues request for proposals

By Eileen De Guire / December 15, 2015

The UGSC has issued a request for proposals to answer the fundamental question, “Where and how do flaws nucleate in glass?” Deadline is March 1, 2016.

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Jim Destefani / October 3, 2013

Ceramics and glass business news of the week.

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Usable Glass Strength Coalition issues RFP to study flaw nucleation in glass

By Eileen De Guire / March 29, 2013

Glass beer bottle assembly line. Credit: EPA; Wikipedia. In January, Peter reported that the board of the newly established Usable Glass Strength Coalition convened for their inaugural meeting in late January.…

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Strong bubbles burst glass bottles

By Eileen De Guire / January 21, 2013

A perfectly good glass bottle can be broken by the force exerted by collapsing bubbles. A team of BYU fluid dynamics graduate students took the time to figure out how.…

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Strong, lightweight, and ductile (yes, ductile) silica glass nanofibers

By Eileen De Guire / January 11, 2013

University of Southampton (UK) scientist, Gilberto Brambilla, developed the strongest, lightest known silica glass nanofibers. Credit: U. Southampton. It looks like a team of optoelectronics researchers from the University of…

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Welcome mat out for glass strength coalition’s first meeting

By / January 4, 2013

Glass beer bottle assembly line. Credit: EPA; Wikipedia. About three weeks ago, I reported that a formal organization, called Usable Glass Strength Coalition, had finally been launched after years of behind-the-scenes…

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Understanding ideal glass structure could be key to doubling glass strength

By Eileen De Guire / September 25, 2012

No more broken glass? Theoretical work by researchers at Rice University shows the potential for doubling the strength of glass. Credit: Rice University. Glass is one of the intrinsically strongest…

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