Gamma radiation attenuation characteristics, acoustic and mechanical properties of TeO2/TiO2/B2O3 glasses using Monte carlo code and Phy-X/PSD software.

This study, aims to investigate on non-traditional tellurite glasses and conducted to study structural, mechanical, acoustic and parameters of gamma radiation shielding (eg. Liner Attenuation Coefficient (LAC), Half Value Layer (HVL), micro-hardness (H)), for the Ternary TeO 2 /TiO 2 /B 2 O 3 glasses with different molar composition. Important parameters used for radiation shielding of the glass samples were investigated by both Monte Carlo simulation codes (MCNP and Geant4) and Phy-X/PSD software, in the 0.284, 0.347, 0.511, 0.662, 0.826, and 1.173 MeV photon energies. As a result, the values of Elastic module, structural, acoustic parameters and fractal Bond were found in this paper. Our calculation confirmed that samples (with the most TeO2 content almost 80 mol% and the least B2O3 amount around 10 mol%) represented the least Molar oxygen volume (11.980 cm3/mol) and the most Oxygen packing density (83.465 mol/L). The simulated results, show that the HVL for the TT and TB glass samples are below the level of other examples, and the TTB2 has the highest HVL at high energy (1.173 MeV). Also, TT and TB have higher MAC and TTB2 has lower MAC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]