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calculated glaze properties---again

updated thu 31 jul 97

 

Karl P. Platt on wed 30 jul 97

Briefly --

As a result of events unrelated to conversations here (CLayart), I'm
toying modeling some glassy things and came across a book that will
interest anyone here who would like to learn more about the various
schemes put forward for calculating property-composition relationships
-- such as thermal expansion, elasticity, etc.

Glass Science and Technology, Vol 9
Mathematical Approach to Glass
Milos B. Volf
Elsevier Science Publishing COmpany
New York
1988

Milos Volf worked for 40 years with glass in what was then
Czechoslovakia. This volume combines essentially _all_ approaches to
making these calculations. Despite its heavy title, it's pretty readable
and the methods presented are capable of being mounted in any
spreadsheet program,

KPP -- Back to it.....







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