Sustainable Brick Manufacturing: Leveraging Sugarcane Bagasse Ash as a Clay Replacement

In India, bricks are usually made up of clay, and are generally produced in traditional, unorganized small scale industries. Brick making consumes larger amount of clay which leads to top soil removal and land degradation. To avoid all this environmental threats an attempt was made to study the behavior of bricks manufactured using, waste materials from sugarcane industrial waste. Recycling of such waste as raw material alternatives may contribute in the exhaustion of the natural resources and reduction in waste disposal costs. In this project we choose Sugarcane Bagasse Ash (SBA) in ordinary Portland cement (OPC) Stabilized bricks. The brick was manufactured of size 19cm x 9cm x 9cm. The blocks were named as (1:3) 20%,30%,40% and 50%; (1:4) 20%,30%; (1:5) 20%,30% then it is added with SBA by weight of dry soil, then the bricks followed by curing for period of 28 days. The test like compressive strength, water absorption test, flame test and soundness test etc. in accordance with Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) specifications by also considering the cost.