Comparison and Transmission Studies of Commercial Glass and Laminated Glass with PDLC Film for Heat Resistant and Other Building Structure Applications

The work emphasizes on energy saving in multi-layered glasses. Appropriate multi-layer designing was envisaged with various possibility and measured the transmittance of light in UV-Vis-NIR range. Various glasses were selected to study their transmittance for their specific advantages among each other for designing the multi-layer.Visible region showing higher transmittance revealing that these glasses allows more light in this range. While in the IR region these glasses show less transmittance revealing that these glasses doesn’t transmit much heat, this being the interest of study to stack the glasses for multi-layered glass with smart film then subjected to study their optical behavior and understood their energy saving phenomenon from window 6 program to obtain Solar Heat Gain Coefficient (SHGC) and Light to Solar Gain (LSG) data. Such multi-layered glasses can be used as a database in industrial plants.