Course Details
Ceramics
Academic Year 2025/26
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.