The use of glass beams in transparent roofs and glass fins as part of the facade is already state-of-the-art construction to achieve a transparent and lightweight appearance. Until now, mechanical fasteners made from stainless steel are used to join these structural components. Those fasteners visually interfere, require holes in the glass and cause unfavorable stress peaks in the glass. In con...

The joining of porous Si3N4 to dense Si3N4 ceramics has been successfully performed using mixed RE2O3 (RE = Y or Yb), Al2O3, SiO2, and α-Si3N4 powders. The results suggested that the α-Si3N4 powders partly transformed into β-SiAlON and partly dissolved into oxide glass to form oxynitride glass. Thus, composites of glass/β-SiAlON-ceramic formed in the seam of joints. Due to the capillary action ...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of glass ceramic insert in the sandwich technique to reduce microleakage in class II composite resin restorations. Methods: Sixty sound human upper second premolars were selected and randomly divided into six groups (n=10). Class II boxonly cavities were prepared in distal aspects of each tooth with gingival margin located ap...

We deposited transparent ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films on fused silica and contacted them via Al-doped zinc oxide (AZO) transparent electrodes with an interdigitated electrode (IDE) design. These layers, together with a TiO2 buffer layer on the fused silica substrate, are highly transparent (>60% in the visible optical range). Fully crystallized Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 (PZT) films...

The potential of the tailings from Morille scheelite-bearing calc-silicate deposit as a commercial raw material for inert glass–ceramic was determined. Nucleation and crystal growth temperatures glass were studied. maximum nucleation rate parent are 612 °C 660 is at 776 1047 °C. At nepheline, wollastonite akermanite formed. In glasses treated higher temperature nepheline becomes unstable wollas...

in this study, the preparation of transparent glass-ceramics with lithium-mica nanocrystals by melting-quenching method was investigated. the effect of heat treatment time and temperature on the crystalline phases, microstructure and transparency of the samples were studied. in order to obtain a fine microstructure, an optimum condition for heat treatment has been found to be very important in ...