Compare brick masonry versus stone masonry, Civil Engineering

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Compare brick masonry versus stone masonry advantage and disadvantage?

Ans.- Comparison between Stone masonry and Brick masonry-

Stone masonry

Brick masonry

1. Stone has been used both for residential, Public buildings and Historical buildings and strength, durability and the excellent weather resisting qualities. 

2. High crushing strength stone is used in the stone masonry in piers, docks, dams and other marine structure.

3. Shining texture of good class of stone masonry required no treatment.

4. Where architecture requires heavy moulding with large projections stone is best suited.

5. Stone work on the other hand suffers from no such danger.

6. Stone on the other hand can be used in such place with out providing any protective coat.

7. On account of the high cost of stone masonry its usage is generally restricted to hilly areas or stone districts.

8. Minimum thickness of a stone wall is generally restricted to 30 cm.

9. In stone masonry the large blocks of stone have to kept in position with the aid of some lifting device.

10. Skilled labour is required for good stone masonry.

11. In expense of the moulding of stone works is for more than that of Brick.

12. In stone masonry the process of dressing and placing stones requires a great deal of time and extra labour.

1. Brick on the other hand has much less strength, durability and weather resisting qualities.

2. Brick on the other hand is not considered suitable in all such places.

3. On the other hand Plastering is necessary to conceal the defects in Brick masonry.

4. Brick being suitable for light ornamental work.

5. Bricks when exposed are liable to get damp. Dampness may ultimately lead to the disintegration of the masonry.

6. When brick work happens to come in contact with sewage it is always plastered.

7. Bricks on the other hand are easily available and the masonry constructed with bricks costs much less.

8. brick wall can be easily built in small thickness of 10 cm and 20 cm.

9. On account of their convenient size and light weight bricks require no lifting tackle.

10. In Brick masonry the defects of careless brick laid can be concealed by plastering.

11. Bricks can be conveniently moulded into any desired shape at reasonable cost.

12. Bricks afford great facilitate  maintaining proper bond due to their regular shape cut size.

 


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