Ceramics are considered one of the greatest and earliest most useful successes of
humankind. However, ceramics can be highly damaging to natural and social systems …

The disposal and littering of cigarette butts (CBs) is a serious environmental problem.
Trillions of cigarettes are produced every year worldwide, resulting in millions of tonnes of …

Over the past few decades, the fired clay brick industry has searched for industrial wastes to
substitute raw clay deposits and lessen their impact on the environment. Despite several …

This paper studies the influence of sawdust on the petrophysical properties of solid bricks.
Brick samples without additives were handmade using a clayey earth that is rich in quartz …

The most basic building material for construction of houses is the conventional brick. The
rapid growth in today's construction industry has obliged the civil engineers in searching for …

This paper reports the findings of an investigation done on bricks made using fly ash (FA),
quarry dust (QD), and billet scale (BS) by non conventional method. The procedure for …

Since the large demand has been placed on building material industry especially in the last
decade owing to the increasing population which causes a chronic shortage of building …

In general, the firing process of clay bricks generates a range of gas emissions into the
atmosphere. At high concentrations, these volatile emissions can be a serious source of …

An experimental study was conducted to investigate the potential of fired clay bricks
containing sawdust as a construction material. Sawdust samples were obtained from wood …

In this study, agro-wastes were used as additive raw materials for the production of fired clay
ceramics. The objectives of this study are to evaluate the impact of adding agro-wastes into …