Structural relaxation of PbO–WO3–P2O5 glasses

The structural relaxation of three compositional series of PbO–WO3–P2O5 glasses with composition (0.5 − x/2)PbO·xWO3·(0.5 − x/2)P2O5, x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5; 0.5PbO·xWO3·(0.5 − x)P2O5, x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.3; and (0.5 − x)PbO·xWO3·0.5P2O5, x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5 was studied by thermomechanical analysis. The structural relaxation was studied in the transformation region using the Tool–Narayanaswamy–Moynihan’s and Tool–Narayanaswamy–Mazurin’s models. The relaxation function of Kohlrausch Williams and Watts was used. The parameters of both models were calculated by nonlinear regression analysis of thermodilatometric curves measured by thermomechanical analyzer under the constant load. Both models very well describe the experimental data. It was found that the modulus is increasing with increasing amount of WO3 in all glasses. On the contrary, the width of the spectrum of relaxation times is decreasing with increasing amount of WO3 in all studied glasses. Both models possess the values of metastable melt thermal expansion coefficient equal to their experimental value.