Effect of Soil Type in Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) with Uncontrolled Burnt Rice Husk Ash (RHA) Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Compressed Earth Brick (CEB) as building material has many advantages compared to conventional fired clay brick in the view of sustainability, moreover if incorporated uncontrolled burnt RHA waste that usually dumped off since it has no commercial value. This paper tried to assess the effect of soil types of clay and laterite in CEB properties which abundantly available in Malaysia. The result showed that the compressive strength of CEB with 20% RHA using clay at 5.5 MPa is better than that of laterite 4.9 MPa, and both exceed that of commercial unfired clay brick from UK.

publication date

  • 2012

number of pages

  • 4

start page

  • 971

end page

  • 975

volume

  • 626