An Experimental Design for the Optimization of Brick Manufacturing Procedure: Application on the Late Miocene Clays, Southern Tunisia

Transactions of the Indian Ceramic Society

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 195-202

  Eloussaief, Mabrouk ^a   Fakhfakh, Nadim ^a   Sdiri, Ali ^a   Bouaziz, Samir ^a   Benzina, Mourad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Brick manufacturing; Characterization; Clay; Experimental design; Mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; MANUFACTURING PROCEDURE; OPTIMIZED CONDITIONS; PREPARATION CONDITIONS; PREPARATION PROCEDURES; SINTERING SHRINKAGE; SINTERING TEMPERATURES;

BRICKMAKING; CHARACTERIZATION; CLAY; CLAY DEPOSITS; CLAY MINERALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; SHRINKAGE; SINTERING; STATISTICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRICK;

EID: 84876116683     PISSN: 0371750X     EISSN: 21655456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0371750X.2012.762154     Document Type: Article

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