635-3019/01 – Ceramic materials in metallurgy (KMM)
| Gurantor department | Department of Thermal Engineering | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Jozef Vlček, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Jozef Vlček, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2014/2015 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
| Intended for the faculties | FMT | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
- student will be able to evaluate of ceramic materials in depend on their composition and used technology of their production
- student will be able to make decision about application refractories ceramic materials
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The subject is focused to obtain of fundamental view in area of ceramics materials. Attention is paid to basic characteristics of ceramic materials, are presented systems raw materials for their production. In the subject are presented characteristics, dividing and properties ceramics substance, including procedures their shaping and next stages of technology production of ceramic materials.
The short characteristic of properties and applications of refractories ceramic materials in practice are part of subject.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Making reports from laboratory exercises.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. The characteristic and range of branch, definition and dividing of ceramics materials – whiteware, porcelain, refractories, advanced ceramics.
2. The structure of ceramic body, porosity, presence of crystalline and glass phase, equilibrium phase diagrams in ceramics systems.
3. The basic raw materials in ceramic technology, their behaviour under the influence of high temperature: oxides, carbonate, feldspar.
4. The clay raw materials for production ceramics materials. Dividing and plasticity of clay. Clay behaviour under the influence of high temperature. Equilibrium phase diagrams SiO2 - Al2O3, the mullitization process of clay.
5. Grain size distribution, adjustment of grain size distribution of raw materials. Particle size role for porosity, mechanical and temperature properties of ceramics materials.
6. The basic methods of shaping ceramics products. Prepare of raw materials for shaping. Plastic forming, pressing of powder systems, isostatic pressing, extrusion.
7. Casting of slurry and methods of their stabilization. Methods of shaping in hot condition. Mechanical adjustment of shape and surface of ceramics products.
8. Drying of ceramic materials. Safety and non-safety area of drying process. Bigot curve, temperature and time programme of drying. Utilization of waste energy in drying process.
9. Sintering of ceramic products, reactions in sintering process, change of structure and phase composition of ceramics materials, sintering with and absence of melt phase.
10. The clay ceramic materials, common characteristic of production. Porcelain, earthenware – raw materials, technology of production, properties of products.
11. Main types of refractories ceramic materials, dividing according to chemical and phase composition. Refractories materials in SiO2– Al2O3 system (production, properties and application). Thermal insulation ceramic materials.
12. Basic refractories materials, unshaped refractories products (production, properties and application)
13. General knowledge a principles of application of refractories ceramic materials in device for production of steel
14. Properties of refractories ceramic materials, heat-resistance, thermal shock resistance, determination of refractoriness under load)
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction