EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF GEOPOLYMER BRICKS

The bricks are manufactured from natural clay, which is obtained from agricultural land the geo polymer bricks are an alternative for the conventional bricks which can be used effectively to replace the conventional bricks. Various properties of these bricks were studied by different researchers and they understood these bricks can be used for construction of low cost houses. This paper is an attempt to study the durability and strength aspect of bricks prepared using class F fly ash, slag, metakaolin and quarry dust.The experiment is conducted to observe the properties i.e. compressive strength and water absorption of geoploymer brick. In this slag (10%) and quarry dust (35%, 30%) are kept constant and class f fly ash (55% to 35%, 60% to 40 %) is replaced with white metakaolin up to 20 percentage and chemicals (sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate). The geo polymer bricks are tested after 7 days, 14 days and 28 days curing in advanced concrete research laboratory of the institute.