Abstract
Relationships between brick compressive strength and results attained from different types of tests were explored in order to identify a suitable non-destructive assessment technique to predict the in situ material properties of vintage solid clay bricks. Empirical expressions were derived that related the brick unit compressive strength to the brick unit modulus of rupture strength and to the modulus of elasticity.
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The authors would like to thank Anthony Waights from the Ceramic Advisory Services Australia for his advice on the brick mineralogy studies. Alec Asadov from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland also assisted in the X-ray diffraction studies. Many thanks go to Ali Omran and Waleed Numan, who during their undergraduate studies assisted in the experimental programme discussed herein. Much of this work would have been impossible without their involvement.
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Dizhur, D., Lumantarna, R., Biggs, D.T. et al. In-situ assessment of the physical and mechanical properties of vintage solid clay bricks. Mater Struct 50, 63 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1617/s11527-016-0939-9
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