Ceramic Process Calculations
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The official GTU curriculum for Ceramic Process Calculations (subject code DI03052011) as prescribed for CT · Semester 3 divides the course into 2 units, covering 18 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (DI03052011)Unit 1 Moisture content 1.1Define Moisture content.
- 1.2. Describe different types of moisture content mechanical, hygroscopic & chemical water
- 1.3. Explain the effect on quality and price of the material and determination of moisture content, calculations of moisture content and its equipments.
- 1.4. Describe significance of loss on ignition and water of plasticity.
Unit 2 Dimensional Changes
- 2.1. Definition drying & firing shrinkage, Types of shrinkage linear shrinkage & volume shrinkage.
- 2.2. Effect of moisture content on shrinkage
- 2.3. Calculation of linear drying & firing shrinkage, volume drying and firing shrinkage & total shrinkage. Estimate the green size and final size of the product with known shrinkage factors.
- 08. 21% Unit– III Porous Solids
- 3.1. Identify various Pores structures.
- 3.2. Open pore, closed pore, solid volume & apparent solid volume. Calculate volume of porous and nonporous solids
- 3.3. Calculate Bulk density, Specific Gravity, Apparent Porosity and Water Absorption of ceramic materials. 08 22% Unit– IV Ceramic Suspensions
- 4.1. Definition of slip. Explain the preparation of slip.
- 4.2. Calculating density of a body batch & slip, adjusting density of batch, preparing slip of known density.
- 4.3. Calculations relating to Mixtures of solid particles and water, use of Brongniart’s formula in fluid calculations- calculating dry content in slip, Increasing the density of slip by adding dry content & Dilution problems.
- 10. 21% Unit– V Strength of Ceramic bodies 5.1Define strength, Study the factors affecting strength of a body.
- 5.2. cold crushing strength, tensile strength, Modulus of Rupture.
- 5.3. Calculations on Cold Crushing Strength, Tensile Strength, Modulus of Rupture.
- 5.4. List of equipments used for measuring of strength.
- 11. 22% Total 45 GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY Program Name: Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Ceramic Technology Course / Subject Code: DI03052011 Course/Subject Name: Ceramic Process Calculations w.e.f.2024-25 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Page 3 of 4
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