LIU Wenguang ^{1, 2}, SHI Yusheng ², LIU Kai ², FENG Jinghua ¹, XU Jia ¹

(1. Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Jingdezhen 333403, Jiangxi, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, China)

Abstract: Computer-aided technology is widely used in the design of modern artistic porcelain, but artistic porcelain is still manufactured by traditional means, which cannot meet modern requirements. This paper puts forward the technique of selective laser sintering (SLS) for precisely manufacturing the designed artistic porcelain forms. First, the powdered mixture of high white clay and E-06 epoxy is prepared, then fused by SLS into a solid form, which is finally post-processed (cold isostatic pressing, glazing, high temperature sintering, etc.) into an artistic porcelain piece designed by computer-aided means. The study shows that it is feasible to use SLS to shape artistic porcelain, which provides a new manufacturing process to produce traditional porcelain designed by modern methods, thus the application range of SLS technology is expanded.

Key words: selective laser sintering; rapid manufacture; artistic porcelain