The Department is involved in the characterization of architectural glass properties, a sector including the inspective activities relevant to voluntary quality marks, as well as the activity as a testing laboratory within the CPD 89/106 European standard on building materials.

Main activities are: 

• setting up of test methods and certification according to international, EC and Italian standards of mechanical strength and other physical properties of flat glass for buildings, furnishings, transport, naval application;
  
  
• measurement of the compressive state of commercial strengthened glass and stress analyses of glass sheets under different kinds of load;
  
• impact and flexural tests, fracture analyses;
  
• technical advice and certifications according to national and international standards and specifications;
  
• tecnical management of the UNI Quality Mark for insulating glass units, strenghened and laminated glass.
• tests on railing systems

• gas-chromatograph for measurement of gas concentration and losses in insulating glass units;
• Instron dynamometer for glass-sealant and glass-sealant-substrate adhesion test;
• devices for the measurement of water amounts Karl Fisher method in organic sealant containing a dehydrator;
• climatic rooms for insulating glass units tests on: ageing, UV, fogging tests according to UNI 10593-EN1279;
• testing equipment for structural sealant according to ETAG and prEN 13022 and analyses on sealing materials (thermo-gravimetry, chemical, IR analyses)
• calibration of furnaces for the heat soak test;
• loading press;
• measuring equipments for gas filled glazing

Testing equipment according to: