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Bricks also have been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials usedthroughout history. On present day manufacturing of bricks with different material like waste material and by-product. .Our project is about partial replacement of quarry dust and wood ash with normal bricks. The main aim of our project isto compare the compressive strength of brick, light-weight bricks, minimize the cost of brick and reduce the sandmaterial in the brick, So for this purpose sand material of 20% of wood ash and 0%, 10%, 20% & 30% of quarry dust byits volume and then the compressive strength of bricks are established, and the compressive strength of quarry dust andwood ash partially added bricks is compared with conventional bricks. Before manufacturing the bricks, differentproperties of the materials (sand, wood ash, quarry dust) like fineness and specific gravity was also verified. Then withthe help of Universal Testing Machine (U.T.M.) finally their compressive strength is determined. Testing of bricks likecompressive strength, water absorption, specific-gravity, soundness, efflorescence, hardness, structure test also beverified.

G.Balaji, G.Sanjiv krishnan, R.Jaya prakash raj, M.Balakrishnan, J.Harikaran, “PREPARATION OF ALTERNATIVE BRICKS BY USING WOOD ASH AND QUARRY DUST”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 359-364, March 2017.