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Materials Science and Engineering 618
Properties and Processing of Glass
Catalog Data:
Processing, structure and properties of glasses, and basic glass manufacturing operations. 3 credits Sp. Qtr. Elective.
Prerequisites:
MSE 341 or permission of instructor.
Time Distribution:
2 1-hr. lectures per week
Objectives:
Provide knowledge about the structure, properties, including the effect of composition such as viscosity, density, optical, mechanical and electrical properties, and manufacture of glassy materials. Chemistry, mathematics and physics applied to the glassy state ABET Criteria 3 (a), glasses and glass-ceramics for specific materials applications ABET Criteria 3 (c), engineering problems for which glasses are a solution ABET Criteria 3 (e) and knowledge of glass ABET Criteria 3 (k).
Textbooks:
Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, A. K. Varshneya, Academic Press, San Diego, CA (1994); Properties and Application of Glass, H. Rawson, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1980); Glass Making Today, P. J. Doyle, Portcullis, Redhill, Great Britain (1979).
Topics/Content:
1. Glass structure (4 Weeks): glass formation and crystallization, glass transition, phase separation
2. Glass melting and forming (2.5 weeks): inorganic glass, compositions and batching, melting, glass forming, annealing
3. Glass properties (2.5 Weeks): viscosity, optical properties including color, photosensitive glasses, mechanical properties and strengthening, thermal properties, chemical durability
4. Recent developments in glasses (1 Week): optical fibers, nonlinear optical glasses
Grading Plan:
6 problems sets, 10%; 3 midterms, 90%
Professional Component Content:
3 credits of engineering science
Relation to Program Objectives:
This offering is integral to Program Objective #1 as it teaches the basic of glass structure and properties, Objective #2 analytical and computational skills as applied to glass properties, and Objective #3 as it details the structure and properties of the glassy phase in a microstructure.
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