Q & A (BRICK)

Q-1: What is brick?

Answer: The bricks are obtained by mouldding clay (consisting of a suitable percentage of alumina,
silica, lime, oxide of iron, and magnesia) in rectangular blocks of uniform size and then by drying and
burning (at around 1150oC) these blocks.
The bricks seem to have been produced since the dawn of the civilization in the sun-dried form. The
Great Wall of China (210 BC) was built with both, burned and sun-dried bricks. The other examples of
use of bricks in early stage of civilization could be cited in Italy, Greece, India, Bangladesh and in other
places around the globe.
Q-1: How much water absorb of a brick if the brick take rest for 24 hours submerged in the
water?
Answer: 1/5 or 1/6 of the brick its dry/own wt.
Q-2: what is the standard size of a brick?
Answer: 9.5in*4.5in*2.75in (without mortar), 10in*5in*3in (with mortar)
Q-3: What is the weight of a first class brick?
Answer: 3.85 kg./(3-5)kg.
Q4: Types of Bond In Brickwork?
Q5: Which is the strongest bond in brick work?
Answer: English Bond is Considered to be the Strongest. Which is known as 10” brick work in our
country. (First course stretcher & second course Header, Alter Course/Layer).
Q6: What is maximum % of water Absorption of a brick, when soaked/submerged in water for 24 Hrs?
Answer: 20% .But water Absorption Range is (15%-20%) its dry/own weight.
Q7. What is minimum Compressive strength of a brick?
Answer: 7.5 N/mm2 as per IS 3495 (Part-1):1976
Q8.What is the thickness of Cement mortar in brick work?
Answer: 10-12 mm or (1/2)”
Q9:What is the weight of first class brick?
Q10:What is maximum height of brick masonry wall built in a day?
Answer: Maximum height is 1.5 m or 5’ per day/ 600 bricks must be laid per day.
Q11.What is maximum height of brick masonry wall built once at a time?
Answer: Maximum height is 900mm or 3’ per lift at once.
Q12.How many types of bricks are there? Name Them.
Q13.How many bricks in 1 cu.m?
Answer: 410 nos. of bricks in 1 m3 for conventional brick/500 nos. of bricks in 1 m3 for metric brick.
Q13.How many bricks in 100 cu.m?
Q14.How many bricks in 1 CFT?
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Q14.How many bricks in 100 CFT?
Q14.How many bricks are required for Per 1SFT 10” brick wall?
Answer: 10 nos./11 Nos.
Q14.How many bricks are required for Per 1SFT 5” brick wall?
Answer: 5 Nos.
Q14.How much cement mortar are required for 100CFT brick work?
Answer: 45 CFT.
Q15.In which bond, its length in the direction of a wall?
Answer: Stretcher Bond.
Q16.Which bond is expensive English or Flemish Bond?
Answer: English Bond, as it requires more bricks & more cement mortar.
Q17.What is Half Bat?
Answer: It is a proportion of a brick which is cut across width in half. (9.5”/2=4.5”).
Q18.Which bricks is used for corner of walls of a structure?
Answer: Quoins.
Q20.Field/Physical/On site Tests of Bricks?
Q21. Laboratory Tests of Bricks?
Q22.What is Soundness test of brick?
Answer. Soundness test of bricks shows the nature of bricks against sudden impact.
Q23.What are the Constituents of bricks?
Answer:
a. Silica 55% (SiO2)
b. Alumina 30% (Aluminum Oxide): Al2O3
c. Iron Oxide 8% (Fe2O3)
d. Magnesia 5% (Magnesium Oxide): MgO
e. Lime 1% (CaO + CO2)
f. Organic Matters 1%
Q24.Which Bond is better in appearance than English bond?
Answer: Double Flemish Bond.
Q25.In HBB (Herringbone Bond), bricks are placed at what line & angle in both directions?
Answer:450, central.
Q26. Cement mortar ratio?
Q27.What should be placed at the beginning of every header course in English Bond to Avoid
continuous Vertical joint?
Answer: Queen Closer.
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Q28.Which of the below should be avoided in brick masonry?
Answer: Continuous Vertical Joints (Along Top to Bottom).
Q29. Types of Pointing in brickworks?
Q30.Types of blocks?
Q31. Standard specification for brick storage as per BNBC?
Q32.A good brick when dropped from the height of 1 meter/3 feet can?
Answer: it should not break.
Q33.Procedure of Brick work?
Q34.What is the density/unit weight of Brick work?
Answer: Density/unit weight of Brick work=1920 kg/m3 or 120 lb./ft3.
Q35. What should we check in brickwork as a project/QC Engineer?
Q36.What are the defects appeared in brick work?
Q37.Curing Period
Answer: (7-14) Days by moist jute bag/Hessian cloth.
Q38.Frog mark in upward Direction
Q39.Labor Required & Productivity-Pwd
Q40.How much water required for 100cft brick masonry?
Answer: In general, water requirement for brickwork is typically around 8%-12% of the weight of the
cement used in the mortar. ১০ ইঞ্চির ক্ষেত্রে প্রতি ঘনফু টের জন্য ১২ লিটার পানি দরকার এবং ৫ ইঞ্চির ক্ষেত্রে প্রতি
বর্গফু টের জন্য ৪ লিটার পানি দরকার ।
Q41.Where Brick bat & Queen closer is used in brickwork?