Course: Ceramic Materials

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Course title Ceramic Materials
Course code KOANCH/C829
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mošner Petr, prof. Ing. Dr.
  • Kucek Vladimír, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Week 1: Introduction. Definition of the term ceramics. Distribution of ceramic materials according to use. Week 2: Natural raw materials for ceramics: plastic (clay minerals, structure, properties); non-plastic (fluxes, slag). Week 3: Synthetic raw materials - required properties, corundum, TiO2. Week 4: Basic aspects of ceramics technology. Preparation of starting mixtures of raw materials for classical ceramics. Methods of preparation of synthetic powders for technical ceramics. Week 5: Shaping of ceramics - casting from liquid suspensions, plastic shaping, pressing, special methods of shaping. Week 6: Drying of ceramic materials - basic concepts, dynamics of the drying process. Firing of ceramics, sintering. Week 7: Classical ceramics - porcelain, distribution of porcelain materials (soft, hard porcelain), earthenware, earthenware - production, properties and use. Week 8: Oxide and non-oxide refractory and very hard ceramics (corundum, carbides, nitrides, borides and silicides. Production, properties and use. Week 9: Refractory materials for industrial furnaces, fireclay, dinas. Week 10: Electroceramics - structural ceramics, types of ceramic materials, production, properties and use. Week 11: Capacitor ceramics - types of dielectrics, materials for dielectrics, production, properties and uses. Week 12: Piezoelectric ceramics, ferrite ceramics, ceramics with ionic conductivity. Week 13: Semiconductor ceramics. Superconducting ceramics. Bioceramics.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The objective of this course is to give the student a fundamental understanding with the basics of ceramic technology, preparation of starting mixtures, shaping of ceramics, drying and firing of ceramics. For selected ceramic materials, their production, properties and use are discussed.
The student will be able to critically evaluate the properties of ceramic materials on a solid theoretical basis and find the relationship between the physical properties and the method of preparation of ceramics. At the same time, he will gain the necessary orientation in the technology of ceramics production.
Prerequisites
the interest in the knowledge of a behaviour and properties of ceramic materials

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Texty přednášek předmětu předávané vyučujícím studentům v elektronické formě prostřednictvím portálu IS/STAG..
  • HANYKÝŘ V., KUTZENDORFER J. Technologie keramiky. Vega: s.r.o., 2000.
  • Heimann, Robert B.. Classic and advanced ceramics : from fundamentals to applications. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2010. ISBN 978-3-527-32517-7.
  • Hlaváč Jan. Základy technologie silikátů. Praha, 1988.
  • Höland, Wolfram. Glass-ceramic technology. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ISBN 978-0-470-48787-7.
  • Kokubo, Tadashi. Bioceramics and their clinical applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-84569-204-9.
  • Valenta, Ladislav. Keramická příručka. Horní Maršov: Vydavatelství technické literatury, 1999.
  • Valenta, Ladislav. Keramická příručka. [Praha]: Silikátový svaz, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86821-49-8.


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