1 Introduction
Dr.-Ing. Karsten Junge, Director of The Brick and Tile Research Institute Essen Regd, a man who impressed his indelible stamp on the brick and tile research community, died...
1 DIN SPEC 1057-100 “Building materials for free-standing chimneys – Part 100: compass bricks with specific properties”
The Technical Specification (pre-standard) DIN SPEC 1057‑100 issued...
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In Frankfurt in April 2008 the students designed clay bricks of different sizes and with different surface finishes and then modelled prototypes in loam. Thirteen of these models in...
1 Masonry
The clay brick is predestined for such explorations. Used on building scale, its compact dimensions result in a fine texture. Its charm lies in the differentiated elaborateness of fine...
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Man has been building houses with brick walls for thousands of years. Of course, not just with bricks and not always in the same intensity. But if you ask what importance brick masonry...
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The building sector is responsible for an average of 40% of the total energy consumption in the EU. In Germany itself, in 2007 the share of the room heat accounted for 26.1% of the...
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The exhaust gases from two parallel tunnel kilns at a large, modernly equipped brick-making plant were found to be emitting pronouncedly different organic and inorganic air pollutants,...
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The firing of heavy clay products is subject to a number of such limiting factors as expansion and contraction processes, endothermic and exothermic reactions and the conversion and...
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1.1 Relating Physical Properties to Durability
The potential durability of clay building brick has been studied in some depth since at least the early part of the 1800’s [1]. A...
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Earthen architecture has been in renaissance since the 1980s. The days in which people who build homes of clay were belittled as a tree-hugging minority are over.
Loam and clay have...
