Glass

- INTRODUCTION

- GLASS, A CERAMIC MATERIAL

- Four Classes of Materials

- Ashby's Charts

- Co-Selecting Materials

- Performance Indexes

- Shape Factors in Mechanical Design

- GLASS PRE- AND HISTORY

- Natural Glasses

- Early Glasses

- First Optical Glasses

- Modern Glasses

- APPLICATIONS OF GLASSES

- Glazing

- Packaging

- Optical Glass

- Glass Fibres for Insulation and Reinforcement

- Abrasive Tools

- Glass Manufacturers

- GLASS STRUCTURE

- Introduction

- Silica Glass and Related Glasses

- Organic and Chalcogenide Glasses

- Avoiding Crystallization

- Surface Structure

- GLASS RHEOLOGY

- Viscosity

- Glass Transition and its Observation

- How to 'Observe' Glass Transition?

- Viscous Response of Glass

- Visco-Elastic Response of Glass

- Tempering of Glass

- MECHANICAL STRENGHT OF GLASS

- Theoretical Strength

- Tensile Resistance of Glass

- Stress Concentration

- Linear Elasticity Crack Tip Stress Field

- Toughness Measurement

- Influence of Residual Stress on Strength and Fragmentation

- Statistic Weibull Analysis

- CONTACT RESISTANVCE OF GLASS

- Sharp and Blunt Contact

- Sharp Contact Resistance

- Abrasion Resistance

- Cutting of Glass

- Application to other Materials

- AGEING OF GLASS

- Stress Corrosion

- Charles and Hillig Theory

- Life Time Under Static Fatigue

- Applications

- MECHANICS OF GLASS PROCESSES

- Introduction

- Float Process

- Blow-and-Blow and Press-and-Blow Process

- Fusion Draw

- PRODUCTION AND CONTROL OF RESIDUAL STRESSES

- Introduction

- Residual Stresses in Flat Glass

- Basics of Photoelasticity in Flat Glass

- Stress Meters

- HIGH-TECH PRODUCERS AND R&D

- Market Trend Driven R&D

- Flat Display Panel

- Thin Film Technology

- Residual Stresses in Thin Film

- Applications

- Conclusion

- APPENDICES

Professor Eric Le Bourhis obtained his PhD from Paris VII University, France 1994. He joined the Saint Gobain Research and Development (R&D) team at Aubervilliers as an engineer applying contact mechanics to glass surfaces and to the coatings that are developed for glazing; he was also involved in solving industrial production problems. In 1998 he joined Poitiers University, where he has been a professor since 2002 pursuing the promotion of sol-gel hybrid coatings in close collaboration with industrial glass manufacturers. He has published over 70 papers in international journals and holds 3 patents.