Ceramic is not an inorganic material polysilicon, presenting a complex microstructure of grains and grain joints, and developed a technology called ceramic technology. The structure and microstructure are defined during the development cycle, which converts materials first mostly powdery material into a dense, ideally free from pores, and whose properties hold those of its grain but also its diversity. Phase technology in the development of ceramic is its sintering, which is the temperature cycle-time atmosphere in which the grain initially put in contact with each other through operations fitness bind as a result of action by various transport mechanisms and then acquire the microstructure sought. The generic term ceramic covers areas as diverse as that of traditional ceramic (refractories, sanitary, tiles and bricks, tiles, etc.). Or that the so-called technical ceramics: ceramics used in the nuclear fuel cycle, ceramic applications or thermomechanical ceramic electronic applications. (more…)


