A Re-examination of the Adams Williamson Law of Annealing

JSGT 1952 V36 T287-T296

The Adams and Williamson Law has been somewhat generally misinterpreted, in part because it has been generally extended over space instead of being confined to time. When restricted to what was actually observed, the law becomes intelligible and its seeming inconsistencies are straightened out. It is then seen that it is not “purely mechanical” but includes a term representing the “constitution” of the glass; it indicates that the constitution changes with time during the annealing process; and it gives a quantitative estimate of that change of constitution.

F. W. Preston