Art of glass
February 28, 2013
The Engineer Online - ‘Most of us think of glasses as brittle, but our finding shows that any glass can be made ductile or brittle,’ said Jan Schroers, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University , who led the research with Golden Kumar, a professor at Texas Tech University.
Researchers in the US have proposed a way of predicting whether a given glass will be brittle or ductile — a desirable property typically associated with metals like steel or aluminum — and assert that any glass could have either quality.
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‘Most of us think of glasses as brittle, but our finding shows that any glass can be made ductile or brittle,’ said Jan Schroers, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale University , who led the research with Golden Kumar, a professor at Texas Tech University.