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Glass windshields for wide bodied aircraft

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W. G. Roberts
W. G. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Triplex Safety Glass Co. Ltd.
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Extract

For many years most transport aircraft throughout the world have used a common form of windshield construction with a single ply of tempered glass for pressure resistance, combined with a thick polyvinyl butyral interlayer. This interlayer is usually reinforced at the edges with a metal insert and acts as a diaphragm to provide bird impact resistance, and also serves as a secondary load path to contain pressurisation in the event of failure of the primary glass ply.

Type
Supplementary Papers
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 78 , Issue 761 , May 1974 , pp. 221 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1974 

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