Technological Application Features of Brickwork Bonding Types

Abstract

Purposes of research are the following: investigation of aspects affected application of different brickwork bonding types, and description of using traditional bonds in Russia and offering more effective analogues for them. They are many different brickwork bonding types now and have different characteristics: constructive, technological and architectural. But they are using just a few of them in Russia, despite the fact that some types are more technologic than others. Principal cause of this problem is researching lack of this theme. It is necessary to analyse technologic features of different brickwork bonding types and determinate their characteristics including the technical-economic indexes. The research results are set below. The constructions built with using English bond have lower longitudinal stiffness than the same ones raised with using Flemish bond. The main reason is the Flemish bond has square of bonded section larger than English one. Professor Onishik’s bond is more technologic. It is connected with the fact that Scottish bond needs a half bats as opposed to Onishik’s one. It excludes brick splitting that makes bricklaying process less labour-consuming. Using a Rat-trap bond for building a self-supporting constructions more effective and economically, than using English or Scottish ones. It is depends on a smaller quantity of bricks end technologically necessity, and needs less time to get finished constructions. Major conclusions are the following: the information lack on different types of brickwork bonding makes process of choosing optimal decision. Possibility of using non-typical brickwork bonding types allows to correct technical-and-economic indexes (labour hours and materials intensity) with saving all functions and quality of construction. Continuation of the researching of brickwork bonding types is necessary because of using unexplored bonds can make building processes more effective.