Manufacture of suitcase brick, eco-artisan alternative for use in agricultural constructions

Abstract

Suitcase bricks are widely used in the construction sector, due to their resistance, thermal and acoustic capacity; Furthermore, the subsistence of many families dedicated to this activity is involved in its manufacture. However, the potential for contamination in the manufacture of brick due to the burning that they are exposed to brings with it multiple effects that considerably deteriorate the environment every day. Given this problem, this research has been developed those deals with the manufacture of suitcase brick. artisanal by applying various concentrations of cement, for which 8 treatments were carried out with the following percentages of cement (0.10%, 0.25%, 0.5%, 1%, 2%, 4%, 6% , 8% and a control), in which each treatment consisted of 4% bricks and then two of each treatment were exposed to the burning process, to finally compare their resistance between the bricks that were not subjected to this process compared to the brick of Traditional manufacturing, using a four-column compression machine to break concrete specimens, each of the artisanal bricks under study was broken. According to the results obtained, the bricks from the treatment with 4% cement from the burning process showed the result of greater resistance of 121.01 Kgf/cm2, it can also be noted that the treatment with 1% cement without burning processes presented a value of 28.43 Kgf/cm2, which represents more than half the compressive strength of traditional brick with a burning process of 46.51 Kgf/cm2 (Control).