简介:Propertiesofrefractoriesaffecttheirperfor-manceanddeformationbehaviouraswellastheirultimatefailuremode,Thereforeinordrtoassessthecapabilitiesofmaterials,usedforrefractorylin-ings,inservicetheirpropertiesmustbeevaluated.Inthisworktheevaluationofsomephysicalpropertiesofcalcinedkaloin(Kibi,Ghana)aggregatere-fractorybodiesshowedanaverageporosityandspe-cificgravityof24%and2.78respectively,Anav-eragecoldcrushingstrengthof19.6MPawasalsoobtained.Thermalexpansionandbehaviourunderaconstanthotloadof196kPaalsoshowedgoodresis-tancetohightemperaturedeformation.