Glass-ceramics in a dense and highly porous form can be obtained from metallurgical slag and waste glass of TV monitors. Using polyurethane foam as pore creator, a highly porous system with porosity of 65 ± 5 %, E-modulus and flexural strength of 8 ± 3 GPa and 13 ± 3.5 MPa respectively can be obtained. This porous material had durability (mass loss) of 0.03 % in 0.1 M HCl that is identical with the durability of a dense composite
Three types of composites consisting of Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2 and Ca3(PO4)2 with composition: 75% (wt) Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2: 25%(wt) Ca3(PO4)2; 50%(wt) Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2: 50%(wt)Ca3(PO4)2 and 25 %(wt) Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2: 75%(wt) Ca3(PO4)2 were the subject of our investigation. Sintered compacts were in thermal equilibrium, which was proved by the absence of hysteresis effect of the dependence ΔL/L=f(T) during heating /cooling in the temperature interval 20-1000-200C. Sintered compacts with the previously mentioned composition possess 26-50% higher values of the E-modulus, G-modulus and K-modulus indicating the presence of a synergism effect. Several proposed model equations for predicting the thermal expansion coefficient in dependence of the thermal and elastic properties of the constitutive phases and their volume fractions, given by: Turner, Kerner, Tummala and Friedberg, Thomas and Taya, were used for making correlations between mechanical and thermal-expansion characteristics of the Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2 - Ca3(PO4)2 composites. Application of the previously mentioned model equations to all kinds of composites leads to the conclusion that the experimentally obtained results for the thermal expansion coefficient are in an excellent agreement with the theoretical calculated values on account of the volume fraction of each constitutive phase and with all applied model equations, with a coefficient of correlation from 98.16-99.86 %
Glass-ceramics were produced utilizing fly-ash from coal power stations and waste glass of TV monitors, windows and flask glass. The powder technology route was employed. The mixture of 50% fly ash and 50% waste TV glass increases the bending strength from 12±1 to 56±4 MPa and E-modulus from 6±1 to 26±3 GPa. Using polyurethane foam and C-fibers as pore creators porosity of 70±4 and 55±5 %, respectively, can be obtained-modulus and bending strength of the porous systems obtained by polyurethane foam and C-fibers was 2.7±0.5 GPa and 4.5±1 MPa and 7.1±1 GPa and 9.3±2 MPa respectively
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