The authors refute the objections raised in the previous paper and reassert their view that the observed strength increase of soda-lime glass by ageing is probably due to the effective blunting of the crack tip by the glass-water reaction rather than to the release of the residual tensile stress.
Origin
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Journal Title
J Am Ceram Soc 1990 73 5 1464-1465
Sector
General
Class
G 441