Bricks and Blocks

Group Number-8
•Herath HMSS-212645J
•Aboothar Ali MLM-212402M
•Tharukshi KAI-212727M
•Pavuththiran R-212687M
•Vitharana VKK-212483J
Contents

• Introduction
• Materials for internal and boundary walls
• Engineering bricks
• Facing bricks
• Hollow bricks
• Fly ash bricks
• Solid blocks
• Cellular blocks
• Suggestions
• Methods of selecting good quality masonry units
Introduction
“Mount Lavinia project”-Near to coastal area

Consider about internal walls and Boundary walls

Materials withstand with,

• Salt Concentration
• Position of the water table
• Humidity
• Direct Contact with sun light
• Bearing capacity of soil
• Wind effect
Materials for internal and boundary walls

• Engineering Bricks • Facing Bricks

• Perfect edges than common bricks • Appearance is good
• Most suitable for load bearing • No need to add
structures • Lime
• Or Potty
Materials for internal and boundary walls

• Hollow Bricks • Fly ash Bricks

• Reduce the dead load • Can be used for load bearing
• Cost aspect law structures
• Green building concept
• Solid Blocks • cellular Blocks
• Made from cement • one or more formed voids that do
• No holes inside of the blocks not fully penetrate the block
• Reduce weight
Suggestions
• Generally engineering bricks are used for the load bearing structures
• Whare as fly-ash bricks also give enough strong
• But when consider cost and sustainability it is good to go with
Engineering bricks
• When consider the internal walls it is good to go with law weight
material
• Because there is no need to much stronger the internal walls
• And Hollow concrete bricks is a good economical choice for internal
walls
Making Process of quality bricks
• Dry Pressed method • Wire Cut method
 • Tests for strength
Hardness test
Structure test
Methods of Drop test
selecting Clap test
 Or test using visual and measurement test
good quality methods
masonry • Check for dimension
• Check uniform texture
units • Check for colour
• Water absorption test
Thank You