Hi /diy, what should be the thickness for a 100x200cm glass top

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>>971960
It really depends what you're going to put on it, i it just going to be a laptop? or is it going to be 4 screens and a desktop? Are you going to have things like a printer on there? Books?

Tally up the weight of all the objects and then add more for the weight added by your arms when typing and more on top of that to be safe and then come back to us.

>>971979
Well OP wrote he was planning for max 50kg of objects.

>>971988
Thank you...I am dumb and retract my statement.

>>971960
In that case OP, I sugest you try google, it's really quite simple, you type in "strength of tempered glass desk"

and then this is the 3rd link

http://www.dullesglassandmirror.com/glass-table-top-weight-load-calculator.aspx

with your dimensions and the span in the middle a 15mm piece of tempered glass (converted into shitty inches) can hold up to 270kg (600lb) so you should be fine with that I'd say.

Remember that a desk MUST be able to hold the weight of everything you might ever put on it, AND your total body weight.

Because at some point, you will lean on the thing.

And double that for safety.

>>972005
>and double that for safety
DING DING

OP, if you're not an engineer, understand the "factor of safety" concept. Take the worst case condition loads, multiply them by [FOS, in this case 2], and design for THAT load.

You really don't want your glass desk exploding (because it's tempered glass, that's what it does) when you have that much stuff on it