Industrial Ceramics II

At the end of the course, students should be able to 1. explore the use of Plaster of Paris mould for mass production of ceramic products that have uniformity in shapes, light in weight; 2. produce ceramic prototypes with jiggering, jollying; and 3. produce ceramic prototypes with slip casting.

This course is expected to meet the students' need to produce ceramic prototypes with jiggering, jollying, and slip casting – use of Plaster of Paris mould for mass production of ceramic products that have uniformity in shapes, light in weight and easily reproduced without stress. Raw materials (plastic and non-plastic) will be identified and processed using different types of machinery in body preparation. For slip casting, students will be exposed to knowledge about slip property control (viscosity and thixotropic) and weight control by litre weight with the aid of appropriate equipment. In practice, students will learn to develop right quality control procedure using appropriate laboratory equipment such as ball mill, bungers, kilns, torsion viscometer, hydrometer, plastic meter, MOR machine, abrasive machine and dryer. Firing of produced wares in different types of kilns under different firing atmosphere will be practised.