Effect of Environmental Temperature and pH Water on Compressive Strength of Clay Brick Mixed Wood Chips Mahogany based Building Materials

Abstract

Bricks using local materials were manufactured in order to reduce the cost of the housing and take into account the waste wood management to protect the environment. Wood Chips were built-in clay bricks building materials in order to study the effect of environmental temperature on compressive strength. The resistance tests in simple compression were made on the parallel epipedic test-tubes out of ground, stabilized with different percentage of cement with incorporation to various percentages of wood chips (mahogany), using a universal press. The obtained results were presented and discussing. These results shows that the incorporation of mahogany wood chips in the clay brick decrease the compressive strength at air atmosphere temperature. It was found that the compressive strength can be increase when the environment temperature was increase below 250C. The decrease of compressive strength was attributed to the content acidity in the wood chips.