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Basic Civil Engineering - 7
Basic Civil Engineering - 7
knowledge about to properties of raw materials, better machinaries and improved techniques of moulding
drying and burning.
The size of the bricks are of 90 mm × 90 mm × 90 mm and 190 mm × 90 mm × 40 mm. With
mortar joints, the size of these bricks are taken as 200 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm and 200 mm × 100 mm
3′′ 1′′ 5″ 1′′
× 50 mm. However the old size of 8 ×4 ×2 giving a masonary size of 9″ × 4 × 3″ is still
4 2 8 2
commonly used in India.
Channel brick