Water absorption and water retention capacity for the locally different types of hand moulded bricks:

Abstract

This study was about investigation of the rate of water absorption capacity and the retention capacity of different types of bricks use for construction of the building in Nagongera town council, the purpose of this study was to determine the type of the brick that absorbs water slowly and releases firster. the following were the objectives the study, to determine the compressive strength, water absorption capacity, and water retention capacity of different types of hand mould bricks made by the anti-hill soils and the loam soils. Also to identify the good quality of the brick to be used in construction The three different types of bricks where measured in each case and thereafter, the three types of the bricks where socked in different packets containing water. For the first case in the period of 2 minute, the second case 4 minutes, the third case 6 minutes and up to the period of 60 minutes. During the process when the bricks where deep in the water for a long period, bricks made out the loam soil start to dissolved in water, brick made out of anti-hill soils became sticky and in the process they were no longer taking in water. The findings showed that the rate of absorption capacity and the retention capacity of the three different types of bricks was high in the beginning and later it becomes slow but the time was also increasing.