ABSTRACT
By the term “glass relaxation” we mean the totality of processes occurring in glass obtained by melt quenching from a certain temperature Tf at the initial equilibrium.* According to Tool, 4 the temperature Tf corresponds to that structural state of a system which had been in an equilibrium liquid but appeared to be frozen in. Obviously, when isothermally sustained, e.g., at T1 < Tf, these processes eventually result in a new equilibrium state of liquid but at the temperature T1, and the very process shifts Tf from the initial Tf value to Tf = T1. Obviously such a simplified consideration also assumes a unified Tf for all structural processes. However, thus far this limitation is sufficient for solving some basic problems.
