The properties of cement-sand brick containing various percentage of cockle shell as a partial sand replacement

• Main Author: Shahrul Munir, Abdul Nasir
• Format: Undergraduates Project Papers
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30496/1/The%20properties%20of%20cement-sand%20brick%20containing%20various%20percentage%20of%20cockle%20shell.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/30496/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Pahang

The increasing demand of cement-sand brick in construction industry nowadays has led to the over-exploitation of natural sand. At the same time, the availability of cockle in this country is relatively high with 43013 metric tonnes of cockle, landed in the year 2014 alone. Furthermore, cockles are o...