Assesment of clay bricks compressive strength using quantitative values of colour components

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 348-354

  Karaman, S ^a   Gunal, H ^a   Ersahin, S ^a  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brick; CIE L* a* b*; Colour; Compressive strength; Firing temperature

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLAY; COLOR; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FIRING (OF MATERIALS); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

A; B; CHROMATICITY; CIE L; CLAY BRICKS; FIRING TEMPERATURE;

BRICK;

EID: 29344459167     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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