The ceramic pastes in Marrakech region are prepared on the base of six types of raw materials of different lithologies. Various products are manufactured. The production consists of cooking utensils (based on schist, colluviums, quartzose sand and silt), decoration products (based on argillite, washing residues and soil), vases and gourds products (based on schist and soil), tiles (based on silt decantation) and traditional dishes (based on soil and argillite).In this study we elaborate bricks from the different raw material and we evaluate some of their physical properties after firing at 1050°C. In particular we measure the porosity to water and the mechanical strength of all the fired bricks. The aim is to compare the final product quality according to the origin (lithology) of the clayey raw material of the ceramic pastes.Based on our experiments, the bricks of the lower compressive strength (CS) and of the lower flexural strength (FS) are those based on sand (CS = 39 MPa; FS = 7 MPa), on silt decantation (CS = 25 to 39 MPa; FS = 10 to 18 MPa), and on schist and colluviums (CS = 20 to 51 MPa; FS = 6 to 17 MPa). Those of the highest values are based on argillites (CS = 33 to 102 MPa; FS = 13 to 28 MPa). The other pastes are characterized by intermediate values. The porosity ranges between 5 to 27%. The bricks based on silt decantation have the greatest values (20 to 27%), whereas those based on argillite have the lower values (5 to 10%).Those physical properties are, in most cases, in agreement with the requested values of the bricks industry. We conclude that such raw materials have high perspective to manufacture structural products of high performance in mechanical strength and thermal insulation.
نوع الوثيقة:
conferencePoster
اللغة:
English
Relation:
13ème Colloque du Groupe Français des Argiles, Clermont-Ferrand, France (du 19 Mai 2015 au 21 Mai 2015)
