Course Details
Ceramics
Academic Year 2024/25
BJA004 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 3rd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
winter
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. Introduction, silicates and ceramics, definition, characteristic of the ceramic body, classification.
2. Microstructure and structure of ceramic materials.
3. Ceramic raw materials – classification, mineralogical composition.
4. Methods of research and determination in ceramics. Methods of crystalline structure research (DTA, DKTA, X-rays, distribution of pores).
5. Plastic raw materials.
6. Opening materials, fluxing agents, lightening admixtures. Raw materials for engobes.
7. Processing and treatment of ceramic raw materials.
8. Shaping by pressing.
9. Shaping by extruding.
10. Shaping by casting.
11. Dynamics of drying.
12. Statics and technology of drying.
13. Theoretical formation principles of burnt ceramic body microstructure – solid state reactions, sintering.Reactions during burning of ceramics. Behaviour of minerals during burning and the formation of new phases.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction, properties of ceramic body.
2. Calculation of the ceramic body properties of the recipe.
3. X-ray diffraction analysis of the ceramic raw materials and fired ceramic bodies.
4. Differential thermal analysis (DTA) of the ceramic raw materials.
5. Ternary diagram CaO-Al2O3-SiO2.
6. Control of reports, Credit.