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On radiation-induced fluidization (quasi-melting) of silicate glasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Michael Ojovan  and
Gunter Mobus
Michael Ojovan
Affiliation:
Immobilisation Science Laboratory, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Gunter Mobus
Affiliation:
Immobilisation Science Laboratory, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
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Abstract

The effect of intensive electron radiation on viscous flow in silicate glasses is analysed and shown that it can result in a many orders of magnitude decrease of viscosity and stepwise decrease of activation energy of flow. Fluidisation or quasi-melting of glasses on intensive electron irradiation is caused by bond breaking via the radiation-chemical reaction ≡Si-O-Si≡ + e− Si-O + Si + (e−)′ which weakens the silicate glass network and leads tofive-fold coordination of oxygens around the silicon. An explicit equation of viscosity wasobtained for irradiated glasses as well as an equation for glass transition temperature. Theassessments of temperature increase by electron radiation show that radiation-inducedfluidisation of glasses can occur at minimal thermal effects. Radiation-induced fluidisation ofglasses can result in nanoscale patterning effects caused by surface tension forces. Changes inthe viscous flow behaviour are also important in conditions of long-term irradiation for glassesused in nuclear installations as well as for nuclear waste glasses.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1193: Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXXIII , 2009 , 275
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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