The Effect of Clay on the Strength of Cement Mortar (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Effect of Clay on the Strength of Cement Mortar<br/><br/>Among the first recorded experiments are those made by Mr. C. E. Clarke and published in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers} Vol. XIV, page 163. These experiments showed that a mortar composed of clean sand and Rosendale cement was no stronger after six months or a year than the same mortar When loam, to the amount of 10% of the sand, was added. He found that Portland cement briquettes were not weakened by substituting clay for from 2 to 8 per cent of the sand and their weathering qualities were not impaired in two and one half years. No special description of the sand is given.

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