Saturday, June 14, 2014

History of Bricks part-2

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    The Manufacturing Process of Bricks


  •  Grinding, sizing and combining raw materials
  •  Pug milling
  •  Extruding
  •  Chamfering the brick 
  •  Coating/coloring
  •  Drying 
  •  Firing
  •  Cooling
  •  Quality control
  •  Store/stacking  
         
             Selection of raw materials

  • Soil: In this study, soil was collected from one of the country kiln brick field (M/s. Habibur Rahman Bricks & Co.) at Ashulia, Savar. The characterization tests to identify the composition of the soil sample and other tests such as grain-size distribution, plastic limit, liquid limit of the representative raw soil sample were done at HBRI laboratories.
  • Fluxing material: Bottle glass, sheet glass and tube light bulb. 
                                                           Grain-size distribution, plastic limit and liquid limit of soil sample


      Grainsize analysis                      Liquid limit and plastic limit  
        
          Clay  -  24%                              Liquid limit  - 44.80
          Silt    -  74%                              Plastic limit  - 30.00
          Sand  -   2%                               Plastic index - 14.80 


Properties of bricks (HOS brand) produced by country kiln  

Compressive strength and water absorption of 4 numbers of burned bricks (HOS brand) produced in the country kiln at Ashulia where from stock soil was collected for the
Purpose of project study was tested in the laboratory and the results are presented in the following Table. 

Quality of bricks produced in the country kiln at Ashulia, Savar 


 
Sample No.
Compressive strength (psi)
Water absorption (%)
1
1198
19.3
2
1740
18.5
3
3141
16.2
4
2168
14.3

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