Reducing weight by 100 lbs./50 kgs will increase the fuel efficiency of a vehicle by one percent. Eliminating weight through advanced materials, such as glazing, may allow engineers to add more content to the vehicle without sacrificing performance and still maintain the vehicle's weight class. For SUVs, decreasing glazing weight can even help lower the vehicle's center of gravity.
Laminated glass made with Saflex interlayer at similar thickness weighs less than standard tempered glass.
For example a 5mm thick laminated glass window weighs almost 10% less than a standard tempered glass window, which provides a weight saving of 3.5 Kg for all side and rear glazing of an average size vehicle (for 3 sqm of glazing).
Calculate the potential reduction in weight by converting tempered glass to the same thickness or thinner laminated glass.
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Best of all, weight reduction is a benefit of laminated glass independent of the specific benefit, application or product selected. In fact, combining Saflex's laminated glass technologies can provide advanced automotive glazing solutions without increasing vehicle weight and possibly even reducing it.
In certain applications the use of laminated glass may require the glazing thickness to increase. Current technology limits the minimum glass thickness to 3.8 mm due to heat strengthening requirements for laminated side glass (1.6mm glass/ 0.63mm PVB /1.6 mm glass).
In addition to weight reduction, laminated glass made with Saflex interlayer also provides the following benefits:
Plus, Saflex interlayer can be designed to provide combinations of other advanced benefits.
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