Course Details

Ceramics

Academic Year 2025/26

BJA004 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / M Winter Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Radomír Sokolář, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289776

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.