Many long-term use of brick friends all know that clay is the oldest and most widely used refractories, enrich its raw materials, processing is simple, inexpensive, however, from an environmental perspective fired clay to consume large amounts of arable land , which for a large population, 80% of farmers’ agricultural country concerned, is not in line with national policy. Environmental damage large, due to the clay soil excavated mainly by sintering, and therefore damage to soil and vegetation damage, resulting in soil erosion, bad environment was severely damaged, so the country is gradually stop the project using clay.
There are other disadvantages clay, such as: ① poor sound insulation, sound propagation to the clay due to its porosity is small, there is no isolation of the sound, the sound decibel reduction is small, and other masonry materials such as are used more aerated concrete block its porosity greater sound insulation effect is obvious; ② self-important, the weight of clay brick masonry wall material weight than other relatively large, making the structure needs to withstand greater weight, construction cost increases.
If clay to use as drywall, then do not sickness, it is easy to weathering, affect the appearance. So now there are many alternatives to brick, shale brick, concrete hollow blocks, clay hollow blocks, porous shale bricks, porous bricks and so on.