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Journal Article
Published: 01 March 2019
European Journal of Mineralogy (2019) 31 (2): 301–312.
...Natalie Saenz; Eduardo Sebastián; Giuseppe Cultrone Throughout history, human civilizations have combined clay soils with additives to produce better brick building material. Recently, bricks have been used as a method of eliminating industrial and agricultural wastes by incorporating the waste...
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Journal: Clay Minerals
Published: 29 November 2023
Clay Minerals (2023) 58 (4): 353–363.
... of refractory bricks. Samples MY3 and KG are kaolinite-rich materials, having clay mineral contents of 88% and 72%, respectively, whereas KK is a sand-rich material with a total clay content of 44%. Chamottes were prepared using each clay, and the ground chamottes were later used in the refractory formulation...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 August 2023
Clays and Clay Minerals (2023) 71 (4): 397–415.
...Elif Çam; Elif Uğurlu Sağın Abstract Fired bricks were valued as essential building materials in the central tradition of Byzantine architecture in Constantinople (İstanbul), Anatolia, and the Balkans. In this study, Byzantine bricks from three construction periods, covering nearly nine centuries...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 23 September 2020
DOI: 10.1144/SP497-2019-74
EISBN: 9781786205339
... Abstract New archaeointensity results were obtained from 14 groups of baked-brick fragments collected in and around Pisa (Tuscany, Italy). The fragments were assembled from civil and religious buildings whose dating of construction or renovation, over the past millennium, was constrained...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2011
Russ. Geol. Geophys. (2011) 52 (4): 450–457.
... are presented. The study aims at assessing the contribution of building materials towards the total indoor radon exposure to the inhabitants of the studied area. In this context, samples of building materials, namely, soil, sand, gravel aggregates, and bricks were collected from different parts of the districts...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 August 2009
Clays and Clay Minerals (2009) 57 (4): 494–501.
...A. Schicker; S. Gier Abstract Ecologic building materials such as adobe bricks have become of greater economic importance in recent years. In the present work, the addition of selected materials to improve the compressive and bending strengths of adobe bricks was tested. The raw material (loam UD...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 January 2007
European Journal of Mineralogy (2007) 19 (1): 137–144.
...Domenico Miriello; Gino Mirocle Crisci Abstract Bricks from the Svevian castle in Rocca Imperiale (northern Calabria, Italy) were analysed in an attempt to ascertain their provenance. This impressive architectural structure was built by Frederick II of Svevia around the year 1200 and is one...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2006
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.257.01.10
EISBN: 9781862395053
... Abstract In this paper we present bulk X-ray fluorescence-X-ray diffraction (XRF/XRD) and microanalytical scanning electron microscope-electron microprobe analysis (SEM-EMPA) data on historical bricks from Medieval or Renaissance buildings of Ferrara (NE Italy) to provide insights...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 September 2005
European Journal of Mineralogy (2005) 17 (5): 777–784.
...Paolo BALLATO; Giuseppe CRUCIANI; Maria Chiara DALCONI; Bruno FABBRI; Michele MACCHIAROLA Abstract This study concerns the Quantitative Phase Analysis (QPA) of historical bricks coming from the complex of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors in Istanbul. The studied samples are characterised...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 May 2001
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (2001) 53 (3): 231–236.
... of these points are illustrated by reference to work by members of the Oxford Clay Working Group in understanding the palaeo-environment of the organic-rich Peterborough Member of that Jurassic formation, a famous source material for bricks and an analogue for hydrocarbon source-rock studies. Recently, a major...
Journal Article
Published: 01 November 1988
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology (1988) 21 (4): 361–369.
...G. Davies; R. E. Oberholster Abstract Problems of pop-outs and associated iron staining on unplastered clinker ash/cement brick walls in Windhoek after a particularly wet rainy season were investigated. The problems were found to be due to sulphurous nodules present in the bricks. The nodules were...
Journal Article
Published: 01 January 2006
Seismological Research Letters (2006) 77 (1): 3–6.
.... An alternative route to answering question (3) follows what I'll call the “brick-by-brick approach” to question (2): building an understanding of earthquake predictability through interdisciplinary, physics-based investigations of active fault systems across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales...
Book Chapter

Series: Geological Society, London, Engineering Geology Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2006
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.ENG.2006.021.01.14
EISBN: 9781862393837
...: • wall and floor tiles ; 70% growth with US$ 14 billion turnover in 1999; • advanced ceramics (including the carbon and graphite sector); 63% growth with US$ 40 billion turnover in 1999; • sanitaryware ; 50% growth with US$ 12 billion turnover in 1999; • structural ceramic sector (bricks...
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Journal: Economic Geology
Published: 01 November 1915
Economic Geology (1915) 10 (7): 663–675.
Journal Article
Published: 01 February 1994
Earthquake Spectra (1994) 10 (1): 81–91.
...Henry I. Siegel; Lawrence W. Fowler, M.EERI The Jackson Brewery, a five story unreinforced brick building and an historic landmark, was seismically upgraded to meet the requirements of the 1990 San Francisco Building Code. Portions of the building had been damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta...
Journal Article
Journal: Clay Minerals
Published: 16 March 2022
Clay Minerals (2021) 56 (4): 292–298.
...-production stages of schist materials (drying, firing, water absorption rate, etc.) were tested at Hatipoglu Gunes Tile and Brick Industry, Inc. (Turkey). The tiles fired at 950°C and 1000°C comply with the industry standard compressive strength values for fired tiles (when converted to industry production...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2018
Clays and Clay Minerals (2018) 66 (5): 403–414.
...Zhi F. Zhang; Wen B. Wang; B. Mu; Ai Q. Wang Abstract Brick-red deposits with palygorskite (Pal) as the main ingredient are widely distributed in nature, but these have not been deployed at a large scale in industry because of their inherent deep colors. In the present study, the brick-red Pal...
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Journal: Geology
Published: 01 November 2008
Geology (2008) 36 (11): 891–894.
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Journal: The Leading Edge
Published: 01 February 2006
The Leading Edge (2006) 25 (2): 199–204.
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Journal Article
Published: 01 August 2012
Earthquake Spectra (2012) 28 (3): 1269–1290.
...Khan Shahzada; Akhtar Naeem Khan; Amr S. Elnashai; Mohammad Ashraf; Muhammad Javed; Amjad Naseer; Bashir Alam This paper presents an experimental study on the performance of a full-scale unreinforced brick masonry (URM) building system tested under quasi-static loading at the Earthquake Engineering...
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