Course Details
Special Ceramics
Academic Year 2024/25
BJ014 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1.Brick products, their use and properties. Brick raw materials, demands concerning their properties.
2.Raw material preparation, beneficiation lines, homogenization. Shaping in brick industry, paste rheology, auger machine,
3.Drying in brick industry.
4.Burning in brick industry. Properties of burnt brick body in dependence on porosity.
5.Ceramic lining elements.
6.Stoneware.
7.Porcelain. Sanitary ceramics.
8.Engobes and glazes.
9.Refractory materials and their selected basic properties.
10.Acidic refractory products- chamotte, ganister.
11.Basic refractory products.
12.Refractory concrete based on Portland cement and aluminous cement.
13.Silicon-carbide products, graphite and carbon products.Refractory materials from pure oxides.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. introduction
2. Influence of limestone on the firing shrinkage of ceramic body - preparation of test samples
3. Influence of limestone on the firing shrinkage of ceramic body - properties of fired test samples
4. Assessment of the impact of feldspar as a flux - preparation of test samples
5. Assessment of the impact of feldspar as a flux - the characteristics of the samples after firing
6. Calculate the composition of the glaze by Seger formula
7. excursion
8. Castable - calculation formula, preparation of test samples
9. Castable - properties of the test samples after firing
10. Verification behavior of glazes on ceramic bodies
11. Excursion
12. Credit