Concurrent Sintering And Crystallisation Of Glass Spheres

Glass sintering is a subject of both scientific and practical interest. While the kinetics of viscous sintering of monodispersed, spherical, glass particles are well described by the classical models, the behaviour of real glasses, having wide size distributions of irregular particles that show concurrent crystallization, is much more complex and not fully understood. This article looks at the development of a model that includes all these complicating factors and test it with a commercial glass.