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Soil
Identification
Characteristic
Testing
Soil Preparation
(Drying and Crushing)
Mixing Process
(Soil, Sand, Cement
and Water)
Moulding
(with the
compactor)
Curing Process
- Watering every day
(Day 1 to 7
th
)
- Naturally dried
(Day 8
th to 14
th day)
Fig. 3 The general concept for producing the interlocking brick
Crushing
Machine
Mixing
Machine
Compacting
Machine
Fig. 4 The manufacturing process of the interlocking bricks
additional material and more power is required for pressing the mixture to form the
solid brick with enough density. Yet, lesser cement binder is used for attaining enough
strength of the solid brick. Nevertheless, more cement binder is needed in the mixture
of hollow interlocking bricks for earning its satisfactory strength (Simion 2009).
Until recently, the researchers and engineers have innovated several interlocking
brick manufacture machine types, which comprise of manually operated, electric
operated, hydraulic, automatic, semi-automatic, etc. Figure 4 demonstrates the manufacture machine of this research. This machine can be broadly divided into three
major parts, which are the crushing machine, the mixing machine and the compacting
machine. Two long runways are designed to connect these three machine parts.
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Soil
Identification
Characteristic
Testing
Soil Preparation
(Drying and Crushing)
Mixing Process
(Soil, Sand, Cement
and Water)
Moulding
(with the
compactor)
Curing Process
- Watering every day
(Day 1 to 7
th
)
- Naturally dried
(Day 8
th to 14
th day)
Fig. 3 The general concept for producing the interlocking brick
Crushing
Machine
Mixing
Machine
Compacting
Machine
Fig. 4 The manufacturing process of the interlocking bricks
additional material and more power is required for pressing the mixture to form the
solid brick with enough density. Yet, lesser cement binder is used for attaining enough
strength of the solid brick. Nevertheless, more cement binder is needed in the mixture
of hollow interlocking bricks for earning its satisfactory strength (Simion 2009).
Until recently, the researchers and engineers have innovated several interlocking
brick manufacture machine types, which comprise of manually operated, electric
operated, hydraulic, automatic, semi-automatic, etc. Figure 4 demonstrates the manufacture machine of this research. This machine can be broadly divided into three
major parts, which are the crushing machine, the mixing machine and the compacting
machine. Two long runways are designed to connect these three machine parts.