Subcritical Crack Growth in Soda–Lime Glass under Mixed-Mode Loading

Subcritical crack growth in glasses and ceramics has been studied extensively under Mode I loading. In this study, subcritical crack growth in soda–lime glass under mixed-mode loading has been determined, using the double cleavage drilled compression (DCDC) specimens with a hole offset from the center line. With this test configuration, cracks are nucleated at the pole of the hole and propagated parallel to the centerline of the specimen under mixed-mode loading. Under mixed-mode loading, subcritical-crack-growth rates are significantly less than those under Mode I loading at the same energy-release rates. Possible mechanisms for this increased resistance to subcritical crack growth under mixed-mode loading are discussed.     

Controlled Crack Shapes for Indentation Fracture of Soda–Lime Glass

Radial cracks for indented soda–lime glass aged in distilled water were highly elliptical because of truncation by lateral cracks. Indentation in silicone oil minimized radial/lateral crack interaction but still produced cracks having nominally constant ellipticity during bend testing. Analysis of applied stress/indentation crack length data using stress intensity factors based on half-penny crack shape resulted in apparent R -curve behavior and/or overestimation of the fracture toughness. Incorporation of elliptical shape factors eliminated the R -curve behavior and reduced measured toughness to near the accepted value for soda–lime glass.     

Indentation Creep of Hydrated Soda–Lime Silicate Glass Determined by Nanoindentation

Time-dependent deformation behavior was investigated for soda–lime silicate glass with various water contents, using a nanoindentation technique. The complete indentation curve, loading and unloading part, is analyzed. It is shown that this deformation behavior may be represented in terms of a simple mechanical model analogous to a viscoelastic system. Values for Young's modulus were derived, a retardation spectrum was deduced, and apparent viscosity values were calculated. Structural rearrangements of the glass appear to be responsible for the observed changes of the viscoelastic properties. Water in the glass reduces Young's modulus and yield stress and thus promotes viscous flow.     

Crack Initiation by Indentation Fatigue in Lead Alkali and Soda–Lime Glass

An indentation technique using a conventional Vickers microhardness tester was used to evaluate fatigue properties of lead-alkali and soda-lime silica glasses. The specimens were indented repeatedly at the same point with subcritical loads until radial cracks were initiated. The number of cycles to initiate the cracks at different subcritical loads demonstrated typical fatigue curves for both glasses. The uniqueness of the experiment was that the diagonal lengths of the deformed cavity were observed to increase with the number of cycles. This increase of the deformed cavity for a certain number of cycles prior to the visibility of crack initiation was analyzed, correlating the elastic-plastic phenomenon and the accumulation of the residual stress in each cycle.     

Shrinkage Behavior of Knoop Indentations in Silica and Soda–Lime–Silica Glasses

The annealing characteristics of Knoop-indented silica and soda–lime–silica glasses were investigated. These glasses were indented using a Knoop indenter in water, and they were annealed at various temperatures below the glass transition temperature. The major diagonal length of the Knoop indentation was measured before and after annealing, and the change of the diagonal length was determined. The change of diagonal length in silica glass was much larger than that in soda–lime–silica glass. This was attributed to the occurrence of more densification around the Knoop indentation in the silica glass. The activation energy of the shrinkage of the Knoop indentation in the silica glass, estimated from the temperature dependence of the relaxation time, was 46 kJ/mol, which was much less than that of viscous flow in silica glass. This suggested that the shrinkage of the Knoop indentation was caused by the structural relaxation of densified glass around the Knoop indentation.     

Indentation-Cycling Tests on Soda–Lime Glass

Repeated indentation loading produces lateral-crack-controlled chipping in brittle materials. This has been investigated in soda–lime glass for a load-cycling range P _min < P _max≤ P , where P is the indentation load. Extensive chipping damage occurs after a critical number of cycles for P _max= P and P _min= 0, whereas subcritical cycling with P _min > 0 suppresses the failures. This is consistent with an environmental interaction. Postcycling aging can produce delayed chipping, and the response depends upon the load-cycling history.     

Surface-Energy Determinations of Tin Oxide-Coated Soda–Lime–Silica Glass

The dispersive and polar surface-energy components, as well as the total surface energy, of tin oxide coatings on soda–lime–silica glass were determined by the Owens–Wendt method. The total surface energy of tin oxide is greater than soda–lime–silica glass and, more importantly, exhibits significantly more-dispersive and less-polar character. These results indicate that tin oxide is significantly more covalent than soda–lime–silica glass. It is postulated that the more-covalent tin oxide coatings increase the bond strength of organic coatings to soda–lime–silica glass. These effects improve the friction-damage resistance of glass surfaces coated with metal oxides and organics, compared with glass surfaces coated with organics only.     

Indentation Behavior of Soda-Lime Silica Glass, Fused Silica, and Single-Crystal Quartz at Liquid Nitrogen Temperature

In an attempt to elucidate the processes involved in the formation of indentation impressions, Vickers hardness measurements have been made on soda-lime silica glass, fused silica, and crystalline quartz indented at room temperature and 77 K. The hardness of all three materials increases by a factor of ∼2.5 on cooling to liquid nitrogen temperature. High-magnification SEM photographs revealed that the deformation and cracking patterns of the glasses changed strikingly: no shear lines were observed within the indentations, and ring cracking occurred instead of radial/median cracking. In addition, cracking occurs at much higher loads than at room temperature. The hardness results have been explained in terms of volume flow (densification) rather than shear flow (viscous or plastic) for the glasses at low temperature. The quartz crystal, on the other hand, deformed plastically at both room temperature and 77 K. Cracking differences result from changes in both flow and water activity     

Mechanism of Mechanical Strength Increase of Soda–Lime Glass by Aging

Two models have been proposed to explain the mechanical strength increase of abraded or indented soda–lime glasses upon aging, namely, crack tip blunting and the release of residual tensile stress near the crack tip. To clarify the mechanism, the time dependence of the strengthening of an abraded soda–lime glass was investigated. Effects of aging media, such as moist air, distilled water, 1 N HCI and 1 N NaOH solutions, as well as the abrasion flaw depth, were determined. The strength increase rate in water of abraded soda–lime glass was compared with those of borosilicate and high-silica glasses. The effect of stressing during aging was also investigated. It was found that the rate of strength increase was faster with decreasing abrasion flaw depth and with decreasing chemical durability. For a given flaw depth, an acidic solution produced the fastest strengthening. The strengthening rate was found to accelerate because of the "coaxing'effect of stressing during aging. From these observations, it was concluded that the strengthening rates relate to the diffusion process and chemical reactions, especially the alkali–hydrogen (or hydronium) ion-exchange reaction, near the crack tip. The role of the residual tensile stress appears to be similar to that of the applied tensile stress, helping the diffusion process near the crack tip. The observed strength increase of soda–lime glass by aging was thus attributed to the effective blunting of the crack tip geometry by the glass–water reaction.     

Glass Formation, Properties and Structure of Soda–Yttria–Silica Glasses

The glass-formation region of the soda–yttria–silica system was determined. The glasses within this region were measured to have a density of 2.4 to 3.1 g/cm³, a refractive index of 1.50 to 1.60, Vickers hardness values of 3.7 to 5.8 GPa, softening temperature between 500° and 780°C, and a coefficient of thermal expansion of 7 × 10^-6/oC to 19 × 10^-6/o C. Aqueous chemical durability measurements were made on select glass compositions while infrared transmission spectra were used to investigate the glass structure and its effect on glass properties. A compositional region was identified which exhibited high thermal expansion, high softening temperatures, and good chemical durability.     

Morphology of Vickers Indent Flaws in Soda–Lime–Silica Glass

The subsurface structure of Vickers indents in soda–lime–silica glass was investigated using confocal microscopy and conventional microscopy. It was determined that the lateral cracks that form beneath the indentation site propagate away from the surface. The median/radial (MR) crack system was found to be semielliptical in shape. The growth of the lateral and MR cracks was found to be codependent such that the depth of the lateral crack limited the depth of the MR crack, and the presence of the MR crack caused deflections in the direction and increased the extent of lateral crack growth.     

Microstructural Evolution on Firing Soda–Lime–Silica Glass Fluxed Whitewares

Density and microstructural evolution of porcelains containing 0–25 wt% soda–lime–silica (SLS) waste glass fired over a range of temperatures from 600° to 1400°C have been investigated. After firing 3 h at 1100°C, batches containing 6.25 wt% SLS glass and 18.75 wt% nepheline syenite flux system attained open-pore closure and a bulk density of 2.40 g/cm³, comparable to results from commercial porcelain after firing at 1200°C. SLS glass softens and melts, conferring early densification and overfiring on porcelains fired at normal commercial firing temperatures. The microstructural evolution examined using XRD, SEM/energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and TEM/EDS revealed formation of a variable composition plagioclase, rounded wollastonite particles, sodium silicates, and tridymite in batches containing SLS glass, in addition to primary and secondary mullites, partially dissolved quartz, and a glassy matrix as found in the waste-free batch. Ca²⁺ and Na⁺ from the SLS glass migrate to regions containing the products of clay decomposition to form plagioclase, limiting the extent of mullite crystallization. The presence of a solution rim surrounding quartz and different glass compositions around wollastonite crystals indicate that the system is not in equilibrium, although phases predicted by the Na₂O–CaO–SiO₂ equilibrium diagram were formed.     

Biaxial Flexure Strength and Dynamic Fatigue of Soda–Lime–Silica Float Glass

The strength and dynamic fatigue behavior of float glass was investigated using biaxial flexure tests. The samples were tested using the ring-on-ring (ROR) biaxial flexure test geometry, and the data analyzed using a conventional two-parameter Weibull distribution. The as-received samples revealed that the air side exhibits a higher characteristic strength (243 MPa) compared with the tin side (114 MPa); fractographic analysis confirmed the presence of significantly larger flaws on the tin side of the specimens, presumably due to contact damage by the rollers in the float glass process. Dynamic fatigue results for as-received and indented samples were performed to assess whether differences in the stress corrosion behavior of float glass exist because of tin penetration. No statistical difference in the stress corrosion exponent was found between the air ( n = 21.7) and tin ( n = 21.6) sides of the float glass. This indicates either that the tin penetration (which extends ∼25 μm) plays no role in altering the stress corrosion susceptibility of float glasses because the native flaw size is larger than the tin penetration depth or that the tests do not have the required sensitivity to distinguish the effect of the tin. Alternative test methods for direct observation of slow crack growth in tin-doped bulk glasses are planned to investigate this in the future.     

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Sulfate Decomposition and Sodium Oxide Activity in Soda–Lime–Silica Glass Melts

Reaction equilibrium constants for the sulfate decomposition process, which releases oxygen and sulfur oxide gas in soda–lime–silica glass melts, have been determined. The chemical solubility of SO₂, probably in the form of sulfite ions in soda–lime–silica melts, has also been determined. The chemical solubility value of SO₂, dissolving as sulfite, ranges between 0.02 and 0.06 wt% SO ₃ ²⁻ at 1 bar SO₂ pressure in the temperature range of 1600–1800 K. Results of square-wave-voltammetry studies and measurements of the temperature-dependent sulfur retention after the fining process of commercial float glass melts and a model soda–lime–silica melt, with 74 wt% SiO₂, 16 wt% Na₂O, and 10 wt% CaO, are presented. The measured sulfur retention data and the results of the square-wave-voltammetry studies are used to determine the equilibrium constant of the sulfate decomposition reaction in the temperature range of 1600–1800 K. The thermodynamic relations and properties found for sulfate decomposition are used to derive activities of sodium oxide in soda–lime–silica melts. Literature values for sodium oxide activities in these glass melts are rare. In this study, these activities have been determined by a method, based on the measurement of sulfate decomposition equilibrium constants and the residual sulfate concentrations in glass melts, equilibrated with almost pure sodium sulfate galls.     

Unusual Indentation Behavior of Alkali Metaphosphate Glass Above Glass Transition Temperature

The mixed alkali metaphosphate glass 12.5Li₂O–12.5Na₂O–12.5K₂O–12.5Cs₂O–50P₂O₅ (mol%) compressed under uniaxial stress shows unusually large recovery of its shape during heating above its glass transition temperature (T_g). To clarify the mechanism, the viscous, elastic, and plastic behavior of the metaphosphate glass was investigated with the depth‐sensing indentation method. From the load‐displacement (P–h) curves of the glass, a large recovery of the depth displacement was found during unloading above T_g. By analyzing the P–h curves with a viscous–elastic–plastic model, the large recovery was concluded to be due to larger elastic deformation than viscous deformation even above T_g. The phenomenon can be attributed to relaxation to the randomly oriented ‐P–O–P– chain structure from the oriented chain structure formed under stress in the metaphosphate glass .     

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