Evaluation of physical characteristics of unfired soil blocks mixed with marble dust sugarcane bagasse ash and paddy straw fiber

Abstract

Soil is abundant on Earth, and it has been used to provide shelter to millions of newlinepeople. Compacted stabilised adobe blocks are construction units made by adding the right newlineamount of water to the right kind of soil and compressing it with the hand-operated or newlinemechanically operated block making machine. The compacted soil stabilised blocks differ newlinefrom fired earth bricks in that they do not require the use of a brick kiln, which produces a lot newlineof pollution. They are unfired admixed soil blocks made up of soil plus stabilisers such as newlinebinders, fibres, or a combination of both. The construction industry has already discovered a newlinehigher performing equivalent for burnt clay bricks, namely fly ash blocks and cement blocks, newlinewhich are commonly employed in the construction of structures. However, the manufacturing newlineand usage of cement and cement blocks raises a number of environmental and economic newlinechallenges. newline