Papers by Keyword: Thermal Tempering

Abstract: Flat glass disks are thermally tempered by air-cooling with two air jets at the centre of their surfaces. Numerical modelling and photoelasticity measurements are proposed to analyze the distribution of the residual stresses through the glass thickness at the centre of the tempered disks. For the modelling, glass properties dependent of the temperature are used for the conductive heat transfer. Radiation is modelled by an improved approximation method. By taking both structural and stress relaxations into account, the transient and residual stresses are computed along the disk thickness. For experimentation, a complete procedure is proposed to access to the stress state in the centre of the disks using a scattered light polariscope. The average distribution of the residual stresses is deduced from stress profile measurements taking four radial orientations at the disk centre into consideration. Comparison between numerical and experimental values is finally discussed for the residual surface and half-thickness stresses at the disk centre.

Abstract: Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are attractive structural materials that develop residual stresses during processing due to thermal tempering. In this process, compressive surface stresses are generated within thin layers balanced with tension in the interior. In the present study, stress generation was analyzed experimentally and theoretically in a BMG plate and a cylinder. The residual stresses were measured using the crack compliance method. It was shown that high stresses can be attained in metallic glasses due to thermal tempering: over −300 MPa compression on the surface balanced by +150 MPa tension in the middle. The experimental data were then compared to the predictions of a viscoelastic model that took into account the equilibrium viscosity of BMG as a function of temperature. The model was shown to be accurate within 5 to 25% of the experimental stress data. It is therefore a powerful tool for estimating processing-induced residual stresses in bulk metallic glasses.