University of Leicester in Britain recently engineers invented a new technology for manufacture of ceramics, it has the potential to save a lot of time and costs, while reducing waste. The new method used to abandon the traditional approach of trial and error to make ceramics, but a new computer modeling technology manufacturing process.

It is reported that British researchers at the University of Leicester in the Department of Jing Pan Zhe (Kim), under the leadership of a professor to focus on manufacturing in the process of firing ceramics of the key steps. Professor Pan said: "ceramics for industrial and construction products, an important component of our modern society is indispensable. However, even in this era of precision technology, manufacturing of advanced ceramics is only a process of trial and error." Ceramic First production is compressed into a solid powder, and then burned in the process of sintering of the powder block to the powder heated to the temperature of the mutual adhesion. At this stage, the material is basically a more compact, reduce the overall size and density increase. The inherent brittleness of ceramics determined the post-production has become very difficult and was unable to accurately estimate the final firing of ceramic parts size, materials, and therefore lead to a waste of time and money. Professor Pan's technology can help reduce errors in the process of sintering. He said: "forecast the size of the change is challenging, there is the question of the need for a wide range of information materials. To obtain the necessary physical data have been very difficult and expensive. Our approach is to use different computer software used in the process of ceramic sintering density measurements can predict the changes in size, this method does not rely on any of the physical properties of ceramic materials, it is only the use of the material from a small sample can be inferred from the density data, it can be applied to mass production, applicable to a wide range of ceramic products. "

It has been learned in the past 10 years Professor Pan has been studying the process, he said ceramic industry has been aware of the computer and mathematical models of the enormous potential, and from the historical data and forecasting methods more benefit, but this approach to achieve applications in industry every day, before some of the challenges to overcome.