Mullitisation behaviour of calcined clay-alumina mixtures

Ceramics International

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 561-571

  Viswabaskaran, V ^a   Gnanam, F D ^a   Balasubramanian, M ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

A. Calcination; A. Sintering; C. Mechanical properties; D. Clays; D. Mullite

Indexed keywords

CALCINATION; CLAY; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLAY-ALUMINA MIXTURES;

ALUMINA;

EID: 0038520113     PISSN: 02728842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-8842(02)00203-1     Document Type: Article

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