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Thermal Expansion
also determines
whether a glass can be
thermally “tempered”
to increase its strength
High thermal
expansion leads to
high tempering ability
Low thermal Thermal tempering increases
expansion leads to low strength and reduces large
tempering ability dangerous shards to fine small
particles
SLS
Polycrystalline materials
under go phase
transformations
Thermal expansion changes
at each phase transition
c-SiO2 has numerous phase
changes and numerous
volume changes that must be
accounted for during heat up
of systems using SiO2
g-SiO2
1 L
L
L0 T P
1 V
V V 3 L
V0 T P
For isotropic materials,
homogeneous in three directions,…
Volume expansion coefficient is 3
times larger than linear expansion
Glasses are isotropic
Fine grained polycrystals are
isotropic
Determine L for
100 – 200,
200 – 300,
100 – 500oC
ranges
Molar Volume
Structural relaxation time begins
to shorten
Fast cooling liquid
Time is available for the glass to
try to relax “down” to the slow
cooled curve
As glass glass shrinks, it exhibits a
negative thermal expansion
slow
The greater the mismatch between
qc and qh, the greater the sub-Tg
relaxation event
Temperature
Thermal Expansion
coefficient increases with
alkali modifier
Expansion coefficient is
larger for the the larger
alkali's
K > Na > Li
Taken as an average value
from 150 to 300oC