TY - JOUR A1 - Schmelzer, J.W.P. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Möller, J. A1 - Gutzow, I.S. T1 - Elastic stresses, stress relaxation and crystallisation: theory of nucleation JF - Physics and chemistry of glasses PY - 2002 SN - 0031-9090 VL - 43C SP - 291 EP - 300 PB - Thornton CY - Sheffield AN - OPUS4-3116 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmelzer, J.W.P. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Möller, J. A1 - Gutzow, I.S. T1 - Theory of nucleation in viscoelastic media: application to phase formation in glassforming melts JF - Journal of non-crystalline solids N2 - Glassforming melts behave, in the vicinity of the temperature of vitrification Tg, as viscoelastic bodies. A general theory of nucleation in a viscoelastic body developed elsewhere is applicable to the description of phase formation processes in such systems. The present contribution is directed to the demonstration of the relevance of this proposed general theory to describing phase transformation processes in glassforming melts. The application of the theory is shown to explain a number of experimental results on crystallization of glassforming melts, which have not found a satisfactory interpretation so far. PY - 2003 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3093(02)01428-X SN - 0022-3093 VL - 315 SP - 144 EP - 160 PB - North-Holland Publ. Co. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-2078 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmelzer, J.W.P. A1 - Potapov, O. V. A1 - Fokin, V. M. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan T1 - The effect of elastic stress and relaxation on crystal nucleation in lithium disilicate glass JF - Journal of non-crystalline solids N2 - In the framework of a general theoretical approach recently developed, the effect of elastic stresses on the rate of nucleation of crystallites of critical sizes in the process of crystallization of lithium disilicate glasses is studied. Hereby both the evolution of elastic stresses – due to changes in the specific volume of the crystallizing system (i.e., differences in the densities of the melt and the crystal) – and their relaxation – connected with viscous flow – are taken into consideration. If the classical theory of nucleation is employed for the determination of the nucleation rates (modified by taking into account elastic stresses), elastic stresses may lead, for the system under consideration, to a decrease of the nucleation rate by up to two orders of magnitude. As shown, the theory allows an at least qualitatively correct incorporation of the effect of elastic stresses and stress relaxation into the description of nucleation phenomena in glass-forming melts. PY - 2004 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2003.10.002 SN - 0022-3093 VL - 333 IS - 2 SP - 150 EP - 160 PB - North-Holland Publ. Co. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-6236 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -