Journal
JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS
Volume 514, Issue -, Pages 15-19Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2019.03.033
Keywords
Stiffness; Young's modulus; Topological constraint theory; Molecular dynamics; Silicates
Funding
- National Science Foundation [1562066, 1762292, 1826420, 1826050]
- Independent Research Fund Denmark [8105-00002]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn [1826050] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Understanding and predicting the compositional dependence of the stiffness of silicate glasses is key for various technological applications. Here, we propose a new topological model for predicting the Young's modulus of silicate glasses. We show that the Young's modulus is governed by the volumetric density of bond-stretching and bond-bending topological constraints acting in the atomic network. The predicted Young's modulus values offer an excellent agreement with molecular dynamics and experimental data over a wide domain of compositions (the entire calcium aluminosilicate ternary system) and a large range of Young's modulus values (from around 80 to 160 GPa).
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