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Melting of Noncrystalline Materials<br />

•In noncrystalline materials (glasses), a gradual<br />

transition from solid to liquid states occurs<br />

•The solid material gradually softens as temperature<br />

increases, finally becoming liquid at the melting point<br />

•During softening, the material has a consistency of<br />

increasing plasticity (increasingly like a fluid) as it<br />

gets closer to the melting point<br />

©2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. M. P. Groover, “Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing 2/e”

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