Experience in pressing standard brick from clays and kaolins in thermoplastic state

Conclusions The pressing of argillaceous raw material reduced to a thermoplastic state by heating produces ultradense refractory of high quality.Standard brick made of 50% Vladimirovka kaolin, 3-1 mm, and 50% Chasov-Yar clay finer than 0.5 mm, pressed to 100 kg/cm² and at about 1380°, containing 40% Al₂O₃, shows a high degree of slag resistance and spalling resistance, and has an apparent porosity of 3% bulk density 2.52 g/cm³.