Concrete Block Wall Construction without Mortar

  Arzoo Patel,  Neel Patel,  Rachnaba Zala,  Abhijitsinh Parmar

Use of interlocking block/light weight concrete block masonry has increasing day by day due to good earthquake or lateral force resistance capacity due to their shape and light weight in many countries as a better replacement to conventional bricks for sustainable structures. Making interlocking concrete blocks with light weight is being always challenging for researchers at low cost and improves the performance against aggressive environment and great fire resisting capacity. In this study we tried to make interlocking light weight blocks as light as possible with higher lateral force resistance capacity. The experimental results are compared with ordinary burnt clay brick and interlocking brick found durable in aggressive environments and have 30-40% lateral resistance capacity and 200% more compressive strength for their use in sustainable building construction.

Keywords- light weight blocks, Interlocking blocks, concrete blocks, bonding

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1702264
Page Number(s) - 1685-1688
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 2 | June 2017
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Arzoo Patel,  Neel Patel,  Rachnaba Zala,  Abhijitsinh Parmar,   "Concrete Block Wall Construction without Mortar", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 2, pp.1685-1688, June 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1702264.pdf