San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 410
Figure 2—Same bricks and mortar as illustrated in Figure 1.In this case, bricks were 50 per cent saturated when laid.Note underbonded areas on brick surface. atop the joint. With conditions as typifiedby Fig. 3, the tensile strength may be fairlygood initially, but it does not remain so.Volume… … Figure I — Poor bond distribution obtained with unadapt-able mortar Dry porous bricks laid with portland cementmortar deficient in water retaining capacity. Figure 3—Same bricks, same mortar as illustrated in Fig-ures 1 and 2. In this case, the bricks were almost com-pletely saturated (too wet)…
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