Basic materials and systems, their thermal behaviour. The glass technology:
properties of molten glasses (transformation, viscosity, crystallisation),
mechanism of glass melting processes, production of industrial glasses, the
main
types of commercial glasses, their properties. Glass-ceramic materials.
Technological principles of ceramic production (preparation of ceramic
mixtures,
rheology of materials - forming, drying, firing). Ceramics on basis of clay raw
materials (china, half-porcelain, earthenware, stoneware, bricks).