Puentes, S. M. and Bradshaw, J. and Briggs, G. Andrew D. and Kolosov, Oleg and Bowen, K. and Loxley, N. (1998) Characterization of near surface mechanical properties of ion-exchanged glasses using Surface Brillouin Spectroscopy. In: Nondestructive Characterization of Materials VIII. Plenum Press, New York, pp. 817-823. ISBN 0-306-45900-0Full text not available from this repository.
The technique of Surface Brillouin Spectroscopy is attracting considerable attention for the non-destructive characterization of near-surface properties that depend upon the elastic behaviour. These include surface strengthening, delamination in metallised layers and structural changes near surfaces. We here present a study of the chemical strengthening of glass. SBS measurements of surface acoustic wave (SAW) velocity in glasses strengthened by the exchange of K+ for Na+ ions were carried out using the Bede BriSc instrument. The study of surface acoustic waves on a transparent material such as glass was made possible by depositing a thin layer of aluminium on the glass surface. At a working frequency of 20 GHz, the optimum thickness of the layer was found to be 30 nm. The replacement of Na+ by K+ ions that takes place during the treatment of the glass causes near-surface modifications of both density and elastic constants. An increase of 3.8% in density due to the replacement of light Na+ ions by heavier K+ ions at the surface could account only for a 1.9% decrease in the surface acoustic wave velocity. Residual stresses were estimated to have a negligible effect on surface acoustic wave velocity. At the same time a 2.8+/-0.4% decrease in the surface acoustic wave velocity due to the ion-exchange process was observed by SBS. This result suggests that a significant part of the surface acoustic wave (SAW) velocity change should be attributed to variations in the elastic constants (approximately 1.8%) and agrees well with independent estimates of the Young's modulus (E) and shear modulus (C-44) changes caused by replacing the Na+ ions by K+ ions during the process.
|Item Type:||Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings|
|Subjects:||Q Science > QC Physics|
|Departments:||Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics|
|Deposited On:||07 Oct 2012 17:14|
|Last Modified:||15 Jan 2016 00:09|
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