| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L57579/01 |
| Title: |
COMMERCIAL SCALE MANUFACTURING OF A LOW-CLAY WHITEWARE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Messer, Dr P |
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| Department: |
Materials Science and Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Sheffield |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 August 1997 |
Ends: |
31 July 1999 |
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120,220
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The project aims to produce a low-clay whiteware, which has reduced anistropic firing shrinkage, on a large scale using an iterative approach. The whiteware contains coarse and fine prefired materials, which will be made by the mixed oxide route. The whiteware will be formed by automated pressing for flatwares, pressure casting for hollow-wares and injection moulding for cups. The injection moulding process will be developed using a PEG/PMMA binder. It is intended that the cups will be once fired, i.e. they can be densified with the glaze applied which precludes holding the cup round during firing. The strength and toughness of powder pressed and injection moulded materials will be measured to find the factors that control toughness and with the use of fractography, determine the nature of the fracture-initiating flaws. This information will be fed into the processing study to improve the strength of the whiteware. It is also intended to study the anisotropic firing shrinkage of a) the compacted spray dried granules in pressed samples and b) the injection moulded test-pieces with the objective of relating the observations to models previously proposed to explain pore formation and anisotropic shrinkage of extruded sheet samples.
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http://www.shef.ac.uk |