Basic Knowledge for Civil Engineers
CLASSIFICATION OF BRICKS
Brick is obtained by moulding good clay into a block, which is dried and then
burnt. This is the oldest building block to replace stone. Manufacture of brick
started with hand moulding, sun drying and burning in clamps. A considerable
amount of technological development has taken place with better knowledge
about to properties of raw materials, better machinaries and improved
techniques of moulding drying and burning.
, BRICK SIZES
The size of the bricks are of 90 mm × 90 mm × 90 mm and
190 mm × 90 mm × 40 mm. With mortar joints, the size of
these bricks are taken as 200 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm and
200 mm × 100 mm × 50 mm. However the old size of
8 ′′3 4 × 4 ′′1 2 × 2 5 8 ″ giving a masonry size of 9″ × 4 ′′1 2 ×
3″ is still commonly used in India.
CLASSIFICATION OF BRICKS
Brick is obtained by moulding good clay into a block, which is dried and then
burnt. This is the oldest building block to replace stone. Manufacture of brick
started with hand moulding, sun drying and burning in clamps. A considerable
amount of technological development has taken place with better knowledge
about to properties of raw materials, better machinaries and improved
techniques of moulding drying and burning.
, BRICK SIZES
The size of the bricks are of 90 mm × 90 mm × 90 mm and
190 mm × 90 mm × 40 mm. With mortar joints, the size of
these bricks are taken as 200 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm and
200 mm × 100 mm × 50 mm. However the old size of
8 ′′3 4 × 4 ′′1 2 × 2 5 8 ″ giving a masonry size of 9″ × 4 ′′1 2 ×
3″ is still commonly used in India.
