ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING STRUCTURE FORMATION AND RAW SHARD OF CERAMIC BRICKS
The article describes the structure of ceramic materials at the macro and micro levels, identifies factors and parameters that influence the formation of the shard. A scheme for the formation of ceramic minerals, depending on the type of clay. The chemical and mineralogical composition of clays, as well as their ratio, influence the course of phase transformations, the nature of the crystalline phases and the structure of the ceramic shard. It is established that the nature of phase transformations, the order of phase formation affect the physicomechanical properties of ceramic products. The methods for obtaining highquality ceramic bricks with a uniform arrangement of the crystalline, vitreous and gas phases are indicating.