Thermal conductivity of fired clays: Effects of mineralogical and physical properties of the raw materials

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-275

  Gualtieri, Magdalena Lassinantti ^a   Gualtieri, Alessandro F ^a   Gagliardi, Silvio ^b   Ruffini, Petra ^b   Ferrari, Roberto ^b   Hanuskova, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Tecnologico Mantovano srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clay brick; Natural raw materials; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

CLAY BRICK; CLAY BRICKS; COMPLEX NATURE; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; INFLUENCING PARAMETERS; LASER GRANULOMETRY; LINEAR CORRELATION; MINERALOGICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION APPROACHES; NATURAL RAW MATERIALS; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PARTICLE PACKINGS; PORE FORMING; SINGLE PARAMETER; SINTERING RATE; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; UNI-AXIAL PRESSING; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BRICK; BRICKMAKING; BUILDING MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LINEAR REGRESSION; PARTICLE SIZE; RIETVELD METHOD; RIETVELD REFINEMENT; SINTERING; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOANALYSIS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

MATERIALS PROPERTIES;

CLAY MINERAL; MINERALOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77955054481     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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