EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL STONE (LOCAL TILE) AND COMPARED WITH NATURAL STONE

	EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL STONE (LOCAL TILE) AND COMPARED WITH NATURAL STONE
AL-TAQANI
Article 1, Volume 24, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 0-0
Abstract
Civilized development for a country is measured by development of constriction in it . Iraq country of oldest and elevated civilization which used rang construction material like stone and brick . Now a day used in many cast material which took plentiful place like metal and glass and new material called Artificial stone which one of our factory started of producing a facing tile just like natural ston In this research we studies the aggregates that used to produce this material and its cost , and compared with natural stone . Tests were made included absorption , density , compressive strength , modules of rupture . results were as follow : absorption reach 5.182% , compressive strength were : 2.1 N/mm2 , density were : 2159.92 kg/m3 , modules of rupture were 6.32 N/mm2 . The results obtained considered to be good with in bounding of American specification for natural limestone (C170-87 , C 217-85 and C99-87) , it showed near to class (B) according to Iraqi specification No . (1387 – 1989) which deals with line stone . In all experiments accept the experiment of compressive as the thickness of produced stone is (2.5 cm) , for this reason the gradient compressive test of concrete tiles was obtained and it was successful. In term of cost artificial stone represents half the cost of the natural stone .

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