On the analysis and prediction of elastic properties in alkali Na2O–B2O3–V2O5 glasses under the substitution of V2O5 by Na2O

In this article, we have continued our recent work(30,42) on the prediction of elastic properties in alkali borovanadate glasses. Changes in the elastic moduli and Poisson’s ratio due to the substitution of V2O5 by Na2O in the ternary alkali Na2O–B2O3–V2O5 glasses have been analysed and predicted on the basis of the theories and approaches that existing in the field. Both the packing density and dissociation energy per unit volume of the glass were evaluated in terms of the basic structural units that constitute the glass network. In addition to this, the theoretical values of elastic moduli and Poisson’s ratio were calculated from the Makishima–Mackenzie’s model and compared with the corresponding experimental values. The results revealed that the concentrations of the basic structural units BO3, BO4, VO5 and VO4 play a dominant role in correcting the anomalous behaviour between experimental elastic moduli and calculated dissociation energy per unit volume. An excellent agreement between the theoretical and experimental elastic moduli was achieved for majority of the samples. The correlation between bulk modulus and the ratio between packing density and mean atomic volume has also been achieved on the basis of Abd El-Moneim and Alfifi’s approaches.