摘要
Vickers and Knoop indentation techniques and density measurements have been employed to study the structure of two series of glasses in the system CaO-RO-SiO2-P2O5-CaF2 (R = Sr, Ca, Mg) with: (a) constant alkaline earth oxide content, but using different cations (Ca, Ca+Sr, Ca+Mg), and (b) increasing alkaline earth concentration (Mg and/or Ca). Samples have been prepared by melting the raw materials at 1400°C, and pouring the liquid on a steel plate. From the experimental data, microhardness, HV fracture toughness, KIC and values for mean atomic volume, VA, and ionic volume fraction, VF, were obtained. The last parameter is proposed as a suitable one for the analysis of variations in cationic coordination numbers, n. The results show that Mg, Ca and Sr have similar values of n. The value of n is proposed to be six.