What’s The Difference Between Glass And Window Glazing?
The word glazing refers to the glass that is installed in the window frame. One sheet of glass is a single glazed window, two glass panels create a double glazed window, triple glazed windows and so on.
The difference between exterior curtain wall glass and glass windows
1. The glass curtain wall must be composed of plates (glass, stone and metal, etc.), beams (aluminum profiles or steel, etc.), and columns (aluminum profiles or steel, etc.) to form a substructure independent of the main structure.
2. The structure that bears the load of the curtain wall itself should be outside the main structure.
3. The glass curtain wall should generally be hung on the main structure (or supported on the main structure), and a certain displacement should be allowed relative to the main structure to meet the effects of wind load and seismic load.
4. The glass curtain wall is an external protective component hung or supported (such as a full glass curtain wall) on the main structure. It mainly plays a protective role and sometimes also plays a decorative role (such as stone curtain wall, metal curtain wall, etc.), and does not share the load of the main structure.
The so-called window should meet the following conditions:
The so-called window is generally installed in the opening of the structure. It cannot produce displacement relative to the main structure, or the displacement is relatively small, and does not meet the conditions of the curtain wall, so it is not the case that large-area glass is equivalent to the curtain wall. Strip windows can only be windows whether vertically or horizontally, but they need to be fireproofed and blocked at the places crossing the fire partition.
Exterior walls with the following four characteristics can be called curtain walls.
1. Hanging in front of the structural frame (the column can be supported without losing stability when it is eccentrically compressed);
2. Not bearing the load of the building structure: non-load-bearing exterior walls including horizontal and vertical loads;
3. The deadweight of the wall and the wind load it receives are transmitted to the structural frame of the building through anchor points;
4. The joint design and connection technology between curtain wall components should enable the curtain wall to be erected into any style of continuous wall.
The structure embedded in the building opening with gaps to transmit force is called a window, whether it is made of curtain wall material or window material.
