1998 年 62 巻 5 号 p. 444-448
Thermal expansion parameter, αp, which is based on the potential energy between cation-anion, has been proposed to estimate the thermal expansion coefficients of oxide glasses. αpi (i for the ith species) is defined as
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oindentby charge Z, Born exponent n and the equilibrium interatomic distance req calculated from the ionic radius. In this study, αp of multicomponent oxide glasses were calculated on the assumption that the additivity of αp was hold for the glasses, and the applicability of αp for the glasses was investigated. As a result, it was revealed that many silicate glasses, including borosilicate and aluminosilicate glasses, could be divided by cation valence of network modifier oxide and an approximately linear relationship existed between the thermal expansion coefficient and αp in each division. It became possible to estimate the thermal expansion coefficient of silicate glasses accurately using the relations obtained in this study.