Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Introduction; glass, glass age, kiln-working purpose, how to use the standard schedules, basis of the schedules
Week - 2	History of Glass
Week - 3	Kilns; Gas/electric, brick/fibre, frontloader/”top hat”, size/shape, fast/slow
Week - 4	Controllers; ramp rate or actual time, number of stages, features, some consequences of digital control
Week - 5	Basic Principles of Glass Firing; up phases, top temperature, crash cooling phase, annealing phase, down phases, typical firing schedule graph, sequence of events during firing
Week - 6	Basic Principles of Glass Firing; up phases, top temperature, crash cooling phase, annealing phase, down phases, typical firing schedule graph, sequence of events during firing
Week - 7	Firing Varibales; thickness of glass, form of glass, type of glass (annealing temperatures, down phase temperature settings),
Week - 8	Firing Varibales; type of kiln (heating from one side or both sides), uneven heating and thermal mass, mould materials and their limitations, avoiding and inducing devitrification, advantages of reduced speed, advantages of maximum speed, the importance of records
Week - 9	Physical and chemical properties of glass
Week - 10	Optical properties of glass, chemical durability of glass
Week - 11	Glass formation techniques
Week - 12	Glass formation techniques
Week - 13	Technical Considerations; nature of glass, colour in glass, surface tension, co-efficient of thermal expansion, viscosity, viscosity ranges.
Week - 14	Technical Considerations; Annealing, toughening, low temperature fusing, span/temperature ratio, useful refractories, thermal shock, termal mass, float glass specifications.