Experimental technology for manufacturing ceramic articles

The production of ceramic articles includes five principal operations, namely, preparation of the powder, pressing of the preform, its treatment, sintering, and grinding. If it is necessary to increase the adaptability to manufacture and improve the physicomechanical properties of the sintered material, the operations of hydrostatic treatment of the powder, preliminary sintering of the preforms, repeated mechanical treatment, etc. can be added. The technology is used for manufacturing the working part of cutting tools, dies, tools for shaping alloys of nonferrous metals, bearings, hinges, valves, ball locks, nozzles of hydromonitors, parts of pressing molds, lining parts, milling bodies, etc.Translated from Ogneupory i Tekhnicheskaya Keramika, No. 6, pp. 25 – 27, June, 1996.