Everything you will do with clay involves the interplay of these three variables: - Moisture - Plasticity - Heat History Ceramics is one of the most ancient industries on the planet. ... It applies the physics of stress and strain, in particular the theories of elasticity and plasticity, to the microscopic crystallographic defects  found in real materials in order to predict the macroscopic mechanical failure of bodies. ...

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