Net-Shape Clay Ceramics with Glass Waste Additive - Materials Sciences and Applications

MSA > Vol.5 No.8, June 2014

Net-Shape Clay Ceramics with Glass Waste Additive ()

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DOI: 10.4236/msa.2014.58061 3,393 Downloads 5,004 Views Citations

Author(s)

Chantale Njiomou Djangang^1*, Elie Kamseu^2,3, Antoine Elimbi¹, Gisèle Laure Lecomte⁴, Philippe Blanchart⁴

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon.
²Department of Engineering “Enzo Ferrari”, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
³LAM, Local Materials Promotion Authority/MIPROMALO, Yaounde, Cameroon.
⁴GEMH, ENSCI, Limoges, France.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, a glass powder from waste containers was mixed (10 - 40 wt.%) with a kaolinitic sandy clay from Cameroon to elaborate net-shape ceramics, fired at 1100°C. The sintering behavior was from dilatometry and thermo gravimetric analyses together with the characterization of porosity and flexural strength. The increase of glass to kaolinite ratio reduces the sintering shrinkage leading to a none-densification sintering when 40 wt.% of glass is added in the mixture. The volume variation during the whole firing process is from the individual volume variations during the quartz transformation, the structural reorganization of kaolinite and during sintering. Quartz size and relative quantity have a significant role on the first processes since it leads to either cohesive or un-cohesive behavior. But the glass quantity strongly controls the second and the third thermal processes because glass additions change the recrystallization processes, leading to the formation of dense clay-glass agglomerates distributed within the three dimensional quartz network.

KEYWORDS

Clay, Waste Glass Powder, Sintering, Composite, Cameroon

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Djangang, C. , Kamseu, E. , Elimbi, A. , Lecomte, G. and Blanchart, P. (2014) Net-Shape Clay Ceramics with Glass Waste Additive. Materials Sciences and Applications, 5, 592-602. doi: 10.4236/msa.2014.58061.

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