• C. Chinna Suresh Babu
• L. Pavan Kumar
• K. Dheeraj kumar reddy
• A. Mohammed Farooq
• V. Chandrakanth

Utilization of conventional materials used in the construction industry is increasing day by day. The increasing demand for conventional materials in the future is the major issue, for which an alternate option is to find out at a reduced or no additional cost and to reduce the environmental impact due to increase of cement industries that are important ingredient to economic development. It turns out urgent to find out alternate for cement, as natural sources of aggregates are becoming exhausted. As large quantity of paper waste is generated from different countries all over the world which causes serious environmental problems, so in this present study abandoned paper waste was used as a alternative material in bricks. Papercrete brick is one of the most innovative, Eco-friendly brick. Papercrete brick comprises of various materials such as paper, flyash, sand, water and cement respectively in different proportions. In the preparation of Papercrete bricks, we use alternate materials such as paper, fly ash in combination with sand and cement respectively with mix proportions of 1:3 of Paper and cement, 1:1:5 of paper : cement : sand, 1:0.7:5:0.3 of paper : cement: sand : flyash, 1:0.5:0.5 of paper : cement : flyash, in the preparation of this brick. The paper can be prepared in various stages such as soaking, grinding, drying and then sieving through 2.36mm. The paper which passes from 2.36mm is taken for preparation of brick. Fly ash can be taken which passes from sieve of 90µ. The materials of different proportions are weighed and then mixed by adding water to the mix until uniform paste is achieved. The mix can be placed into moulds of standard size 190mm X 90mm X 90mm by applying lubricant to the moulds for easy removal of bricks. After that, these moulds have been dried up to 24hrs-48hrs for sun drying. Only dry curing is sufficient for these bricks. The various tests such as weight, compressive strength, water absorption test, efflorescence test, soundness test, fire resistance test have been done in order to calculate their properties. These bricks are used only for non load bearing walls because of low compressive strength.

Papercrete Brick, Sun Drying, Compressive Strength, Fire Resistance Test, non load bearing walls, water absorption test.

"An Experimental Study on Papercrete bricks", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.167-177, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C26.pdf

"An Experimental Study on Papercrete bricks", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp167-177, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904C26.pdf