Possibilities to control ceramics properties by changing firing cycles

In the paper these structural parameters of ceramic samples are determined experimentally: reserve of pore volume, degree of structural inhomogeneity, maximum rate of capillary wetting front, capillary rate of mass flow, total open porosity. The reciprocal statistical analysis of data is performed and empirical equations derived, showing the interdependence among. ring cycles stages (expressed in square measures) and structural parameters. Applying empirical equations of the derived interdependences, it is possible to control technological process and to obtain ceramics with different properties although having the same composition formation mixes, but varying the magnitudes of. ring cycles (temperature increase, keeping at the maximum temperature, temperature decrease). (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.