Self-Sustained Fracture Waves in Soda-Lime Glass

摘要

High-speed framing photography in conjunction with circularly polarised light has been employed to monitor qualitatively the state of residual stress in Prince Rupert's drops of soda-lime glass undergoing disintegration by a self-sustained fracture wave in the glass drops. It is revealed that the fracture wave through a Prince Rupert's drop is driven by the residual stress in the drop, with the propagation speed of the fracture wave being (1700 ± 100) ms"1, which is close to the terminal speed of individual cracks in the soda-lime glass, but is much smaller than the longitudinal wave speed of 5300 ms~(-1) in the glass. These observations support our recently reported observations and also give support to our conclusions that the fracture wave speed of a self-sustained fracture wave is equal to the terminal speed of individual cracks in the glass. Some preliminary observations from fracture waves in Prince Rupert's drops of a lead oxide glass are also described, which show that in Prince Rupert's drops of the lead oxide glass the fracture wave is also self-sustained and it travels through the drop at a steady and stable speed of (1300 ± 100) ms~(-1), which is also considerably smaller than the longitudinal wave speed of 4800 ms~(-1) in the lead glass.