Archive for the 'Bricks' Category

Indian China Clay

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Clay for Manufacturing Refractory Bricks
On that note just a very brief description on how refractory bricks are manufactured. The Refractory Brick manufacturing needs good sound in usage of amount of mix to use. Plastic clay has to be used for preparation of chamotte and as a binder. Chamotte is prepared by burning the plastic clay […]

Indian China Clay

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Clay for Manufacturing Refractory Bricks
Fire clay bricks are produced by mixing crushed grog with sufficient binder clay to produce a mass which can be molded into bricks and which will retain their shape during subsequent drying and burning. The ideal chemical composition of clay for producing bricks should be
Alumina – 37%
Silica – 57.8%
TiO2 – 1.6%
Fe2O3 […]

Indian China Clay

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Clay for Manufacturing Refractory Bricks:
One another application usage of Clay is the manufacturing of refractory bricks…. Any idea on how these are made??? We shall discuss the same in the coming blogs… Fire Clay Bricks are the largest type of bricks used in industrial refractory’s. Research works are being carried out extensively to see if […]

More about bricks

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Brick - This is the first ceramic engineering material . In fact, we could call this as the first engineering material invented by mankind. It is the basic building block and needless to say there would be no infrastructure without bricks. Buildings, dams and all construction activities rely on this basic engineering material and naturally […]

Brick - More than just clay

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Due to a big demand for building materials all over the world, brick emerged as a very important material and plenty of research and development took place. This particular ceramic field of brick making saw many technical advancements however even today the production of this important ceramic material is done by the potter in the […]

Terracotta and Bricks

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

The early days of pottery saw pottery wares made out of clay available in common places like lake, river bed, etc but not with glaze. The most common ceramic materials in this group were building bricks, roofing tiles, pottery ceramic ware made out of red burning clays.Some articles like pots, jars etc. made by potters […]