제주도 스코리아를 이용한 세라믹 타일의 연구

A Development of Ceramic Tile by Addition of Cheju Scoria

Scoria is a kind of pyroclastics. It is formed when magma becomes porous powder during volcanic acti vities. It is ca lled by "sen g-i" in Cheju. Scoria is a good ceramic material since it shows good grindability due to a low level of organic impu rities. This charac teristic allows scoria to play a good role of airing when it is mixed with clay. In this study natur e stone-textured ceramic tile was developed by mixing conventional clay with scoria which shows a tremendous amo unt of reserves in Chej u. Speci fica lly, the ce ramic tile was made of scor ia sludge occurred at sco ria brick factories, therefore, it will co ntributes to the decr ease of production costs as well as to the environmenta l protection. I hope that the cerami c tile dev el oped thr ough thi s s tudy provides a ch ance to contribute to keeping the tradition and regi onal identity of architecture in Cheju