Increase strength, control stress, and deliver reliable performance across industries.

Manufacturing glass ia a meticuolus process, and ensuring its durability is crucial. Strengthening techniques like annealing and tempering play a vital role, ensuring that glass products, from bottles to architectural glass, withstand pressure and break safety. This course provides the essential insights to master these processes and optimize the mechanical properties of glass for critical applications.


Attend if you are interested in:

  • Glass composition (soda-lime, borosilicate, crystal) and atomic structure
  • Structural relation to Young's modulus and thermal expantion
  • Glass surface conditions
  • Thermal shock resistance
  • Relaxing stress: annealing
  • Tailoring stress: heat strengthening and tempering
  • Special glasses and chemical tempering


What you take away:

  • Understand why various glass types have different characteristics
  • Recognize the significance of protecting the surface of glass
  • Estimate a glass product's thermal shock resistence
  • Calculate a theorical annealing schedule for optimal glass relaxation
  • Understand how tempering impacts stress and improves the mechanical resistance of glass

Your trainers

Katelyn Kirchner

Katelyn Kirchner obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She holds 2 collegiate-level Teaching Certifications and is a certified online and in-person professor. In addition to her 4 years of experience teaching, Katelyn brings 8 years of experience investigating structure-property-performance relationships in glass. Her expertise centers around glass structure, statistical mechanics of glass forming, and the physics of critical atomic glass behaviors, including glass viscosity, relaxation, crystallization, crack propagation, and heat transfer. Katelyn has worked in industrial and academic research groups in Japan, Germany, and the USA. She now studies glass melting at the manufacturing scale, as a Glass Process Scientist at CelSian.

Training costs € 2500- per participant

Price excludes tax and duties.