One of the materials used in building construction from the past until today is brick. As a member of the brick family, clay brick is widely used in construction. Clay brick is one of the most popular building materials used for wall cladding in today's modern structures.
What is the pottery brick?
To make clay bricks, clay and clay soil are used as raw materials, that is why this brick is called clay brick. Clay bricks are used in building walls from the past until today. Bricks are generally produced in two ways, traditional (handmade and molded) and modern (industrial), and finally the product that is produced is a cube-shaped block with regular horizontal holes. The number of holes in this brick varies depending on its dimensions, but it generally has the following specifications:
Pottery Production Processes
The production of clay bricks is produced in several stages, which we will examine below. The first step Extraction of raw materials from the ground: At this stage, after checking the quality of the desired soil, they examine it and then extract it if it has the desired quality. The second step Soil preparation: At first, lumps and stones were extracted from the soil, and hard materials were crushed in a mill until the particle size reached a standard level and kept in special places.
The third stage | Clay brick mold production is divided into two stages: Clay bricks are produced in two ways: dry and wet, we will examine the two methods below. The first stage Dry clay brick production: In this case, the soil is compacted in such a way that there are no voids in it. In this case, the humidity percentage is very low. The second stage|Production of clay bricks in a fresher way: the soil obtained in the higher stages is turned into mud, then they are transferred to molding machines, after shaping the mud, it is cut by cutting machines. After that, it enters the drying machine to determine its moisture content and then enters the furnace. The reason why bricks are placed in the dryer to absorb moisture is that if their moisture is high, they will crack.
The fourth stage | Putting in the oven and baking the clay: The final stage of production is putting them in the kiln at a very high temperature, then turning off the kiln and after cooling down, we keep the clays in the warehouse.