There is an increasing need for light-weight, strong and crack-resistant glasses for industrial applications. In order to design new glasses, a thorough understanding of relationships between composition, structure, and properties is required. This study attempts to shed more light on the composition-structure-property relationships in alumina-rich aluminoborate glasses. In the present work, MgO-Y2O3-Al2O3-B2O3 glasses have been fabricated by melt-quenching at temperatures ranging from 1600°C to 1650°C. The influence of the substitution of B2O3 by Al2O3 on the structure, thermal and mechanical properties of the glasses (hardness and crack resistance) have been investigated using magic angle spinning – nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS-NMR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Vickers indentation. Hardness and crack resistance of the glasses were found to correlate with their structure and composition. Furthermore, with Al2O3/B2O3 substitution, fragility, density and hardness were found to increase while glass forming ability as well as crack resistance decreased.
Subject (authority = RUETD)
Topic
Materials Science and Engineering
Subject (authority = ETD-LCSH)
Topic
Glass--Analysis
Subject (authority = local)
Topic
Aluminoborate glass
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = RULIB)
ETD
Identifier
ETD_9419
PhysicalDescription
Form (authority = gmd)
electronic resource
InternetMediaType
application/pdf
InternetMediaType
text/xml
Extent
1 online resource (53 pages) : illustrations
Note (type = degree)
M.S.
Note (type = bibliography)
Includes bibliographical references
Note (type = vita)
Includes vita
Note (type = statement of responsibility)
by Anne Elisabeth Rebecca
RelatedItem (type = host)
TitleInfo
Title
School of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Identifier (type = local)
rucore10001600001
Location
PhysicalLocation (authority = marcorg); (displayLabel = Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.