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Bricks are considered as the backbone of the construction industry. They are perhaps the most importantbuilding construction material. But the unlimited use of clay is harmful to society as all the bricks kilns in India dependon good quality clay available from agricultural fields and presuming a weight of 3 kg. Per brick.Thetotal clay taken outfrom the agricultural fields per day was over 300 million tonnes for 10,000 Crore bricks. Moreover, clay bricks availablein certain regions are poor in quality and costly which have forced engineer’s tolook for better material capable ofreducing the cost of construction. So the use of industrial waste products such as fly ash, for making bricks isecologically and economically advantageous since apart from saving precious top agricultural soil, it meets the socialobjective of disposing industrial waste i.e. fly ash which otherwise is a pollutant and a nuisance. The ever increasingvolume of fly ash quantities in the world has not been remotely matched by its utilization. Environmental concerns havebeen raised in some parts of the world where coal is the main power generatingresource and where bricks are also themain building material. So far, few attempts at manufacturing bricks from more than 80% fly ash have been made. Theauthor believes that fly ash on its own is an excellent raw material for brick manufacturing which can be extensively usedin different construction materials. The objective of this paper is to study the components used in the manufacture of ashbricks along with their properties and regions where they found.

Manish Kumar Sahu, Abhishek Kapre, Lokesh Singh, “Study on the Components of Ash Bricks”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 15, pp. -, January 2017.