Two bars ready for pyro-plastic comparison test


Sunday 14th June 2015

When porcelains insight-live.com/glossary/60">mature in the kiln they progress toward vitrification, getting softer. This simple test enables anyone to quantify the degree to which a porcelain is likely to warp. Bars of plastic clay almost never dry straight, so the measurement (in mm) to which they deviate from straight is recorded and the bar is mounted with the hump upwards. After firing the mm of firing deviation-from-straight are added to the dry value to derive a total pyro-plastic deformation measurement. This can be recorded as an absolute value for comparison with other clays or temperatures.

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PPD Pyroplastic Deformation, Fired deformation comparison between two porcelains, Vitrification, Warping


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