Strength and fatigue of some binary and ternary silicate glasses

A survey represented mainly by means of glasses of the borosilicate system shows the generally valid limits of the applicability of the crack growth model and the essential influence of the corrosion of glasses on fatigue. A close correlation between macroscopic crack growth and fatigue was affirmed for samples with fresh, slightly corroded cracks. If the state of corrosion of the samples is advanced, the influence of region 2 is reduced and the fatigue limit is increased. Processes of corrosion during the measurement influence the fatigue curve prevailingly in the range of great time-to-failure, in particular the slope in region 1. The results indicate the high complexity of the effective chemomechanical processes during the fatigue measurements.