Traditional Ceramics Products

Pottery tableware sanitaryware tiles structural clay products refractories blocks and electrical porcelain are some of the products of.

Traditional ceramics products. Today there are many divisions of this industry. These products consist of various combinations of mostly silica and alumina with smaller amounts of other oxides such as iron oxide magnesia titania potassium oxide and sodium oxide. Traditional ceramics are divided into the following categories. The definition of pottery used by the american society.

Structural clay products such as bricks tiles and pipes. Depending upon the amount of water added clay water bodies can be stiff or plastic. It is used widely because it is found in great quantities naturally and it is easily formed. Clay is used in structural clay products bricks pipes tiles and whitewares pottery.

Most traditional ceramic products were made from clay or clay mixed with other materials shaped and subjected to heat and tableware and decorative ceramics are generally still made this way. Clay is one of the most common ceramic raw materials. Traditional ceramics are comprised of three basic components clay silica quartz and feldspar. Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard durable form.

Although they all have different uses we can still think of them as general purpose materials. Plasticity arises by virtue of the plate shaped clay particles slipping over one another during flow. Bricks pottery glass porcelain tiles cement and concrete are our classic time tested ceramics. The traditional ceramics industry originated long ago.

Traditional ceramics ceramic materials that are derived from common naturally occurring raw materials such as clay minerals and quartz sand through industrial processes that have been practiced in some form for centuries these materials are made into such familiar products as china tableware clay brick and tile industrial abrasives and refractory linings and portland cement. The fine platy morphology of clay particles is used to advantage in the forming of clay based ceramic products. Traditional ceramics traditional ceramics forming. Traditional pottery and other forms of ceramicware are made with earthenware a porous form of clay which must be glazed in order for the pottery to hold food or liquid.

I will help you see. In modern ceramic engineering usage ceramics is the art and science of making objects from inorganic non metallic materials by the action of heat. Even thousands of years ago it was a well established practice in many parts of the world.