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    This 3-paragraph summary provides the key information about ceramic materials from the document: Ceramic materials are produced from clay. Clay becomes plastic when mixed with water, allowing it to be shaped into bricks, tiles, and decorative objects. However, clay objects are not very resistant and break easily. Firing the clay objects in a high-temperature oven transforms their structure, making them hard and water-resistant through the cooking process. The production process involves mixing raw materials with water, molding the clay into shapes through extrusion, drying the molded pieces, and firing them in kilns at high temperatures to give the pieces their hardened, durable form.

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    This 3-paragraph summary provides the key information about ceramic materials from the document: Ceramic materials are produced from clay. Clay becomes plastic when mixed with water, allowing it to be shaped into bricks, tiles, and decorative objects. However, clay objects are not very resistant and break easily. Firing the clay objects in a high-temperature oven transforms their structure, making them hard and water-resistant through the cooking process. The production process involves mixing raw materials with water, molding the clay into shapes through extrusion, drying the molded pieces, and firing them in kilns at high temperatures to give the pieces their hardened, durable form.

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    1.5. Building Materials - Ceramic Materials

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    This 3-paragraph summary provides the key information about ceramic materials from the document: Ceramic materials are produced from clay. Clay becomes plastic when mixed with water, allowing it to be shaped into bricks, tiles, and decorative objects. However, clay objects are not very resistant and break easily. Firing the clay objects in a high-temperature oven transforms their structure, making them hard and water-resistant through the cooking process. The production process involves mixing raw materials with water, molding the clay into shapes through extrusion, drying the molded pieces, and firing them in kilns at high temperatures to give the pieces their hardened, durable form.

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    Teacher: Mario Fernández

    BUILDING
    MATERIALS
    BUILDING MATERIALS
    1. Introduction to building materials
    2. Types of building materials
    3. Soils, sand and stones
    4. Mortar and concrete
    5. Ceramic materials
    6. Wood
    7. Glass
    8. Properties of building materials

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    5. Ceramic materials
    ANALYSE
    Clay is a type of rock that acquires plasticity when it’s mixed with water.

    This feature make possible to create bricks, tiles as well as decorative


    objects.

    However, it is not very resistant and it breaks easily. How do you get
    more resistant objects?

    3
    5. Ceramic materials
    If we introduce these objects in a high-temperature oven, they get
    great resistance. The cooking process modifies the structure of the
    clay, that’s why it improves its properties, so hard and water-
    resistant materials are created.

    4
    5. Ceramic materials
    • Ceramic materials are obtained from clay. You are able to give it the
    shape when the mixture is cold and later it is transformed by cooking
    it at high temperature.

    5
    5. Ceramic materials
    This video will take you on a short journey through the manufacturing
    process of bricks and pavers.

    Watch the video:


    https://littlehamptonbrick.com.au/clay-bricks/making-bricks/

    6
    (mixing process) (cutting and trimming)

    (extrusion process)

    (firing)

    (drying) 7
    5. Ceramic materials
    • Amasado. Mezcla de materias primas, junto con la cantidad adecuada de
    agua a fin de dotar a la mezcla de la plasticidad idónea.
    • Molienda. Mediante tornos la arcilla se muele para conseguir granos
    uniformes.
    • Moldeado. El moldeado de las piezas se realiza empleando técnicas
    mecánicas por extrusión. La masa de arcilla sale con la forma del molde y
    se corta posteriormente.
    • Secado. Las piezas moldeadas contienen cantidades de agua que deben
    reducirse con aire caliente.
    • Cocción. Se introducen las piezas en hornos a elevadas temperaturas para
    que las piezas adquieran la consistencia pétrea y la inalterabilidad de su
    forma.

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    5. Ceramic materials
    Translate the previous steps in English:
    • Mixing process:

    • Cutting and trimming:

    • Extrusion process:

    • Drying:

    • Fyring:

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