Performance Analysis of Fly Ash Bricks and Comparison with Common Red Burnt Clay Bricks

Fly Ash bricks can be extensively used in all building constructional activities similar to that of common burnt clay bricks. The fly ash bricks are comparatively lighter in weight and stronger than common clay bricks. Since fly ash is being accumulated as waste material in large quantity near thermal power plants and creating serious environmental pollution problems, its utilisation as main raw material in the manufacture of bricks will not only create ample opportunities for its proper and useful disposal but also help in environmental pollution control to a greater extent in the surrounding areas of power plants.so using wastage instead of exploiting natural resources is one of the great advantage. Also 180 billion tonnes of common burnt clay bricks are consumed annually approximately 340 billion tonnes of clay- about 5000 acres of top layer of soil dug out for bricks manufacture, soil erosion, emission from coal burning and fire woods which causes deforestation are the serious problems posed by brick industry. The above problems can be reduced some extent by using fly ash bricks. The objective of this project is to represent the information regarding Fly Ash bricks and plant, properties and their uses in a most concise and comparison. And also in this project some laboratory experiments were carried out on fly ash bricks samples are Compressive strength study and water absorption study.