The heating microscope has been used for many years for the research on the glass behaviour. Beside the classical determination of softwening point and sphere point, the hot stage microscope can supply more useful information, if the images of the …
The heating microscope continues to be an extremely useful tool for studying the beahviour of materials undergoing heating cycles. In ceramics it is indispensable for studying frits and glazes. Nonetheless, manual analysis is extremely laborious and …
The glasses are intrinsically complex systems, quite difficult to study because their structure has no long range order and they are not in a thermodynamically stable state. Ceramic glazes are undoubtedly far more complex than glasses because in most …
Direct observation of the behaviour of a ceramic body during the sintering process through a high heating gradient thermal cycle provides extremely valuable information on the optimisation of body formulations and on the firing cycle. Once highly …