Binding in The Frame
All glass expands and contracts with changes in temperature and deflects due to wind. This means that almost all modern glass is set on resilient blocks at the bottom and with space for expansion at the sides and top. The gaskets holding the glass in the frame are also usually resilient to cushion the glass against wind buffeting. If no space is provided at the perimeter of the unit, the glass will bind against the frame causing internal stresses to develop in the glass which can exceed the strength of glass resulting in breakage.
Read more about this topic: Spontaneous Glass Breakage
Famous quotes containing the words binding and/or frame:
“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)
“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)