Safety Test: China's giant glass bridge hit with sledgehammer by BBC Technology Reporter

Posted by Anup Baral June 17, 2016 : 

In July, the world's most elevated and longest glass-base scaffold is set to open to people in general in Central China. A security test of the new scaffold was directed, as an approach to "facilitate" individuals' fears of glass extensions. 

The new straightforward extension situated in Zhangjiajie Canyon national park in China's Hunan region – which was the motivation for James Cameron's motion picture, Avatar – traverses two precipices 430 meters long, six meters in width and can withstand the heaviness of more than 800 individuals, CTV reports. Every fragment of the extension is made out of three layers of ultra-solid glass.

To demonstrate the extension is sufficiently solid to hold several guests at once, BBC Click correspondent, Dan Simmons, was welcome to take a couple swings at one of its boards with a heavy hammer. The power from the main swing brought about the top layer of glass to break. 

Regardless of the smashed layer of glass, the scaffold's leader appeared to be sensibly certain. Simmons then hit the glass a second time, which brought about more fragmented glass. The main strike smashed the top layer of the glass board, however the lower two layers stayed in place after twelve blows. The extension's proprietors say in their own particular tests 25 individuals could bounce on one board, in which each of the three layers were split without it getting through.