Engineering Research
Materials Science
Engineering Series
Glass – The Challenge for the 21st Century
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This special collection focuses on the most up-to-date knowledge concerning Glass Science and Technology.
It covers various aspects of glass science and glass technology, mutual interactions between glass science and glass technology, and their influence upon the glass industry. Special attention is paid to new challenges to glass in the 21st century. The contributions deal with topics related to understanding and predicting the chemistry and technology of processing, fabrication, structure, properties and history of glass.
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Selected papers from a June 2008 conference report on various aspects of glass science and glass technology, mutual interactions between the two, and their influence on the glass industry. Papers are presented in sections on glass structure; thermodynamics, rheology, and the glass transition; physical properties of glass; optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of glass; bioglass and chemical durability; nucleation, crystallization, and sintering; glass melting; glass forming and glass production; and ecology and waste materials. Some specific paper topics discussed include the yttria-alumina glasses, transport and relaxation studies of ionic phosphate glasses, stress and strain testing of the strand of E-glass fibers, and convolution models for the dielectric function of glass. Other subjects covered include durability of soda-lime-silica glass containers, dishwasher corrosion of glasses, sulfur functioning during glass melting, and nickel sulphide inclusions in tempered glass. B&w photos are included.