Open AccessDimensional evolution of brick products from the full brick to the present in the Czech Republic
Author(s) -
Jan Fiala,
Jan Fiala,
Milan Mikoláš
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/362/1/012164
Subject(s) - brick , czech , groove (engineering) , engineering , civil engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
Our presentation describes the evolution of single brick products with an emphasis on the dimensional disproportions, which had changed extremely mainly in the second half of the 20th century. We have to notice that the evolutionary lineage of fired bricks reaches the period of 25.000 years B. C. Around the year 8000 B. C., the production of full bricks started. Another turning point is apparent in the day of 14th April 1883, when in the Czech Republic after the metric reformation, the format of full brick has been set. After that the creation of brick CDm, smooth brick block so-called CDk blocks. In the 60s of the 20th century, the brick blocks of the system “spring, groove” were being created. Since then, the dimensional revolution has begun.