ARH312Y1 Lecture : Ceramic Technology
Document Summary
Favorable properties of ceramics: chemical stability, abrasion and wear resistance, high strength, hardness, high melting point, low density. Unfavorable characteristics: low fracture toughness (brittleness, not simple to fabricate. Poor resistance to thermal shock, tensile and impact loading. Ceramic ecology: coined in the 1960"s, hast to do with sequence of operations potter goes through (chain operatoire, all processes in making and use of materials, characteristics related to physical actions, motor abilities, skills, knowledge, experience as. Strategies, decisions and gestures used and learned in cultural context expressed in ability and performance. Acquiring raw materials: mining clay, mining or collecting mineral tempers, can include recycling of old tempers, collecting or recycling fibrous tempers, collecting large amounts of water. Other requests: weather conductive to slow drying of formed vessels (no in rain season, demand for a large number of vessels (no one just makes one) Space where pots can be formed without disturbance for at least several days.
