Currently, the ceramic materials are widely used as options in the engineering world. Because they are materials with high mechanical strength, they have many applications in several areas like: bearings components, automotive (sensors, insulators, catalysts, pistons, valves, coatings), biocompatible implants (dental, replacement bone, heart valves), products subject to wear (guides), refractories (coating of military equipment, components of ovens), electronics, and others. In ceramic manufacturing there are many factors that contribute to the final features of the product. In this way many researchers have been working on the influences of defects and production technique on the final mechanical properties. This work has as objective to review the recent literature that study the influence of some factors like burn rates, crack growth, porosity, crystalline phases and particles size on the final mechanical characteristics of ceramics. We may conclude that is possible to improve the manufacturing process to promote the best possible mechanical properties knowing the harmful factors and the best techniques to take the optimized final products.
ceramics; manufacturing process; mechanical properties
