The main objective of this work is to study the mechanical and dielectric properties of high temperature coating insulators based on the by-product resulted from the raw kaolin treatment; this by-product represents about 21 wt% of the kaolin as commercial products. During sintering, the mineralogical phases are mainly mullite, quartz and vitreous silica besides rutile phase which is identified only at 1200 o and 1500 o C. The sample porosity decreases from 21% to 16%. Mechanical properties carried out by Young's modulus values are enhanced during calcinations from 54 to 57 GPa. Dielectric properties, in the frequency range of 10 5 -10 9 Hz, of the samples fired at 1400 o and 1500 o C show that they can be considered as insulators since they exhibit a high relative permittivity ( exp ) varying from 6.95 to 7.89 respectively. These parameters depend on glassy, quartz and mullite phases besides porous structures. Porosity affects considerably both the corrected relative permittivity ( c ) considering the large difference between exp , c and the dielectric loss of the samples.
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