COMPARING THE STRENGTH AS BLOCKS MADE FROM (1) CEMENT AND LATERITIC SOIL (2) CEMENT AND RED EARTH (3) LATERITE, SAND AND RED EARTH
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COMPARING
THE STRENGTH AS BLOCKS MADE FROM
(1) CEMENT AND
LATERITIC SOIL
(2)
CEMENT AND RED EARTH
(3)
LATERITE, SAND AND RED EARTH
ABSTRACT
This case study is “comparing the strength of blocks made from: cement
stabilized laterite blocks, cement stabilized red earth blocks and sand,
red earth and laterite blocks and mud blocks dried in the kiln.
This project implement the following analysis
(1)
To effect reduction to
the rise in market price of sand (fine aggregate), cement blocks to
substitute literate blocks.
(2)
To determine the strength of the cement
stabilized blocks of literate soil in the soil laboratory with a view to have
an alternative in the building industry.
(3)
To analyse the existing laterite soil
and evaluate it’s suitability for use as a good building material by means of
various tests.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
PROJECT BUILDING
MATERIALS
CHAPTER
TWO
PREPARATION OF
MATERIALS
CHAPTER
THREE
PREPARATION OF CUBE
CASTING OF THE
STABILIZED MATERIALS
CURING OF SPECIMENS
CHAPTER
FOUR
FIRING OF BLOCKS IN
KILN
TESTING OF BLOCKS
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
TEST
CALCULATION OF
RESULTS
CHAPTER
FIVE
DISCUSSION OF RESULT
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH
TABLE WITHT EH CMENT MORTAR BLOCKS
CHAPTER
SIX
RECOMMENDATION
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
CHAPTER
ONE
INTRODUCTION
This project was obligated to present
in o n e volume of the fundamental and practical information in the field of
comparing the strength of blocks made from: cement and lateritec soil, cement
and red earth and sand, red earth and lateritic soil and mud blocks fired in
the kiln which may be useful to people involved in civil and structural
engineering and particularly those that found pleasure in the design and
construction of buildings, bridges and culverts and related structures.
Due to high cost of sand in the market, the comparative analysis of stabilized
laterite blocks, red earth blocks and sand blocks have revealed t hat one can
definitely substitute the stabilized laterite blocks and mud blocks in place of
sand blocks to reduce the cost of the entire building or used stabilized
laterite blocks where there are no sand in such an area where the work is going
to be sited. A great have been done throughout this work, although it is
limited in scope to assess their suitability as standard concrete aggregates.
THE
PROJECT BUILDING MATERIALS
To obtain the materials used for these project such as red earth, laterite,
sharp sand, and cement, we had to move to the outskirts of Enugu State.
Cement was bought from the famous Keyatta market in Enugu. The market is
well known for the sales of building materials in the state. Cement was
added to the mixture during mixing, to give the mixture a good binding when in
shape and also increases the strength of the blocks. The brand of cement
used was ROCK CEMENT.
The red earth material known as mud was obtained at 9th mile corner
in Ngwo, at the outskirts of Enugu. It was dug from a depth, to make sure
that it has not been mixed with foreign or any other material. The red earth is
dark red in colour, which shows that the mud is of high quality.
Sharp sand was obtained within the school premises and was subsequently gotten
from a nearby stream, while that of laterite was obtained from a site at New
Layout, in Enugu town.
In conclusion, all the materials used was obtained within Enugu and was kept in
good working condition. We made sure that the materials were of best
quality.
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