1. An Empirical Study for Improving the Quality of Fly Ash Added Bricks.
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Bhattacharya, Madhuri and Chakraborty, Abhijit
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FLY ash , *BRICKS , *POLLUTION , *EMPIRICAL research , *COMPRESSIVE strength , *PRODUCTION planning , *POWER plants - Abstract
Because of urbanization, demand for housing is increasing day by day in India. Traditional clay brick leads to resource scarcity and environmental pollution. To overwhelmed this problem, manufacturing of bricks was done using the waste of thermal power plants like Fly Ash along with Sand and Cement (FAS-C Brick) as key ingredients. Fly ash is an Industrial by-product of thermal power plant. An experimental study of mix-design was carried out to increase the quality of the FAS-C brick. This paper attempt to formulate the mix design of fly ash based brick by process planning. Laboratory tests were conducted to determine the compressive strength and water absorption of the bricks. The main objective of the research study was to design the Fly Ash, Sand, Cement (FAS-C) brick and find the compressive strength using different mix design methods as a part of quality improvement process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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