Mechanical and radiation shielding features of lithium titanophosphate glasses doped BaO

Abstract

Glasses with the formulation 15TiO2 -70P2O5 –(15−x) Li2O- x BaO x = (0 ≤ x ≤ 10 mol. %) are fabricate by the melt quenching procedure. As BaO concentration increased, the observed density increased and the predicted molar volume decreases. To assess the elastic properties of glasses, ultrasonic velocities were measured. Ultrasonic velocities (VL&VT) increases as the amount of BaO content increases. The higher connection strength of BaO proportional to Li2O as well as an increment in coordination number results in an increment in elastic moduli. The Phy-X/PSD program was also used to describe the samples' gamma-ray shielding parameters, like the mass attenuation coefficient (MAC) (cm2/g). According to studies on radiation shielding in glasses, the BaO content is the only factor affecting the radiation shielding phenomenon. All the samples have (MAC) values of 7.868, 9.177, 10.432, 12.794, 13.907, and 0.021, 0.022, 0.022, 0.023, and 0.024 at lower and higher energies. One can deduce that BaO reinforcement has multiple functions, including increasing the density of comparable glass compositions and thus their mechanical and gamma-ray shielding properties. This study suggests, there is a strong correlation between the mechanical and radiation properties of the glasses.