Characterization of Different Brazilian Soils for the Production of Ceramic Artifacts

Abstract:

The ceramic materials production industry produces a wide variety of products, such as sealing blocks, roof tiles and shackles, used in civil construction. However, one of the major problems related to the production of these artefacts is the large consumption of natural raw material, which are the clays that are calcined and acquire appropriate technological properties. Brazil is a country that has great prominence in the production of ceramic blocks, used to reduce the existing housing deficit, however the great variability in the characteristics of the soils in the country makes this process very difficult. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate the physical and chemical characteristics of four different soils collected in deposits in the city of Campos dos Goytacazes, evaluating right after its technological parameters such as the flexural mechanical strength, water absorption and linear burning retraction of the calcined prismatic specimens at 750, 850 and 1100 °C. The results showed that the collected soils have adequate characteristics for the production of ceramic blocks at a temperature of 1100 °C.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 1017)
• Pages: 123-132
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1017.123
• Online since: January 2021
• Authors: Afonso Rangel Garcez Azevedo, Sergei V. Klyuev*, V.A. Klimenko, M.T. Marvila, Roman Fediuk
• Keywords: Ceramic Artifacts, Characterization, Clay, Soil

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