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Dehydration‐driven mass loss from packs of sintering hydrous silicate glass particles

Vasseur, Jérémie; Wadsworth, Fabian B.; Lavallée, Yan; Dingwell, Donald B.

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Jérémie Vasseur

Yan Lavallée

Donald B. Dingwell



Abstract

Glass sintering involves the densification of packs of particles and the expulsion of the interparticle pore gas. The pore space begins as a convolute interconnected interparticle network, and ends as distributed isolated bubbles; two configurations that are separated by the percolation threshold. Here, we perform experiments in which (i) the particles are initially saturated in H2O at 871 K, and (ii) they are then heated non-isothermally at different rates to temperatures in excess of 871 K. In step (ii), H2O becomes supersaturated and the particles diffusively lose mass as they sinter together. We use thermogravimetry to track the loss of mass with time. We find that the mass loss is initially well predicted by solutions to Fick's second law in spherical coordinates with the appropriate material and boundary conditions. However, as the sintering pack crosses the percolation threshold at a time predicted by sintering theory, we find that the mass loss deviates from simple diffusional solutions. We interpret this to be the result of an increase in the diffusion distance from the particle-scale to the scale of the sintering pack itself. Therefore, we conclude that the open- to closed-system transition that occurs at the percolation threshold is a continuous, but rapid jump for diffusive and other transport properties. We use a capillary Peclet number Pc to parameterize for this transition, such that at low Pc diffusive equilibrium is achieved before the sintering-induced transition to closed system, whereas at high Pcthere is a “diffusion crisis” and disequilibrium may be maintained for longer relative timescales that depend on the system size.

Citation

Vasseur, J., Wadsworth, F. B., Lavallée, Y., & Dingwell, D. B. (2023). Dehydration‐driven mass loss from packs of sintering hydrous silicate glass particles. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 106(8), 4643-4653. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19120

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Mar 14, 2023
Online Publication Date Apr 1, 2023
Publication Date 2023-08
Deposit Date Feb 13, 2024
Publicly Available Date Feb 13, 2024
Journal Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Print ISSN 0002-7820
Electronic ISSN 1551-2916
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 106
Issue 8
Pages 4643-4653
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.19120
Keywords Materials Chemistry; Ceramics and Composites
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2254136

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© 2023 The Authors. Journal of the American Ceramic Society published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Ceramic Society





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