The porous ceramic have a high potential to be used in several important applications. Combining raw materials with processing techniques appropriately is possible to obtain porous ceramic with high values of mechanical resistance, resistance to the chemical attack, high refratariety and high structural uniformity. Among the several methods of obtaining porous ceramic, the method of incorporation organic products of the ceramic body is very used when wish work with the porosity of the product. However, many variety should be analyzed, to begin the amount of organic material added to the ceramic body. This work has as objective the elaboration of porous ceramic with the incorporation of the wood powder to the ceramic body and the analysis of the physical and mechanical properties of this material with the variation of the processing temperature. The results indicated that the method is viable, verifying an increase of the fraction of pores with the addition of the organic material and good mechanical resistance of the material.
clay; wood-powder; porosity; mechanical resistance
