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Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components (THD)

The student would manage the goal of the subject by participating in basic laboratory tests in ceramics – testing of ceramic base material properties, event. Ceramic production mixtures and fired ceramic bodies.

Theoretical fundamentals of ceramic body formation – general overview of ceramic raw materials properties, their processing, shaping methods in ceramics, drying, burning, properties of burnt body

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

1.Introduction, raw material preparation, laboratory rules.
2.Determination of earth grain size composition - sedimentation method (the shortened method according to Andreasen), sieve analysis.
3.Moisture determination of clays by drying, by alcoholic method, determination of hygroscopic moisture.
4.Plasticity evaluation according to Rieke, determination of pliability limits, plasticity index and evaluation of the earth (clay).
5.Determination of optimal mixing water quantity according to Pfefferkorn.
6.Determination of plastic strength, deformation limits of shear tension, optimal mixing water quantity according to Nichiporenko.
7.Determination of drying sensitivity, the Bigot curve, the critical point and the area of safe and of dangerous drying, appropriateness of earth utilization according to CSB.
8.Study trip, firing of prepared samples.
9.Study trip, firing of prepared samples.
10.Properties of burnt ceramic body in different burning procedures: appearance and shape, ring, colour; determination of shrinkage by firing and total shrinkage; determination of compression and bending strength.
11.Density determination (by pycnometric method) of ceramic body fired at different burning temperatures.
12.Determination of absorption (by boiling), of volume mass (by hydrostatic weighing), of apparent porosity, apparent density and capillary elevation of burnt ceramic bodies in dependence on firing temperature.
13.Checking of results and records, summary of achieved results, test for course unit credit.

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Familiarization with basic laboratory tests in ceramics – testing of ceramic raw materials and burned ceramic bodies.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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Sokolář, R., Smetanová, L.: Keramika - laboratoře. Vysoké učení technické v brně, Fakulta stavební, 2007. [https://intranet.fce.vutbr.cz/pedagog/predmety/opory.asp] (CS)

Hlaváč, J.: The technology of glass and ceramics. Elsevier Science Publishing company Amsterdam, 1983. (EN)
Koller, A.: Structure and properties of ceramics. ACER Hradec Králové, 1994. (EN)