Thermal, Compositional and Structural Effects in Glass

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. Describe the relationships between the composition of glass and thermal history during glass melting and their resultant effects on the structure and properties of glass.

Relationship of properties to thermal history, composition and structure of glass such as viscosity, surface tension, density and specific gravity chemical durability, electrical properties, optical properties, mechanical properties and their relationship to glass structure.