Effect of different glass granularity on thermomechanical and electrical properties of illitic ceramics.

Waste car windshield glass was prepared by milling and sieving to obtain the powder with a different granularity of <50 µm, 50 – 100 µm, 100 – 200 µm, and 200 – 500 µm. The as-prepared waste glass was used as an admixture to the illitic clay (86 wt.% of illite/smectite, 6 wt.% of montmorillonite, 4 wt.% of orthoclase, and 4 wt.% of quartz) from Füzérradvány, Hungary. After initial firing at 1100 °C, the samples were thermally treated, and the influence of glass granularity on thermomechanical and electrical properties was investigated using thermodilatometry and DC conductivity analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]