BLOCKS

-precast blocks and bricks moulded from concrete .. . have compressive and absorption criteria .. .normal or light weight aggregates are used .. . autoclaving used for fast curing in service in one day

-standard

corner sash

-bullnose corner

-half block

-lintel used in bond beams filled with rebar and concrete

-pilaster

-mortar five types:

-M strongest but brittle

-N best workabilty, strength

-S best workabilty, strength

-O too weak for tall thin walls

-K too weak for tall thin walls

-control joints  at wall intersection, at cross walls, at change in wall thicknesses, at openings, control joint uses building paper on a coat of asphalt paint, cores are filled with concrete, single wire connections

-horizontal joint reinforcement

-wall to wall ties dove tail masonry to concrete

-bolted and welded connections, L shaped tie bars

-prefabricated concrete wall blocks

-surface bonding blocks stacked without mortat and sprayed on both sides with portland reinforced with glass fibres

-prefabricated brick wall machines can lay out mortar and point full walls  16 times as fast as man power can

BRICKS

-bat a piece of brick

-bed joint ..  layer of mortar

-belt course or sill course window sill

-bond the lapping of units, the pattern of lapped units, the actual bond between brick and mortar

-buttering placing mortar on brick

-centreing ..   is forms to hold work re: lintels , headers

-chase ..   recess for electrical etc.

-closer ..   last brick in course

-closure ..   last brick short unit to maintain pattern

-course ..   a layer horizontal row

-damp course ..   impervious layer at base to prevent moisture

-face  ..  exposed surface

-frog  ..  depression in brick

-grounds ..   wood furring for attachments

-grout ..  flowing mortar

-header ties  ..  two adjacent whythes together

-masonry brick, tile, stone

-pargetting parging

-pier ..  isolated column

-pointing  ..   masonry into a joint

-raggle  ..  groove for flashing

-rowlock  ..  brick placed on edge as a tie

-soldier stands  ..   on end with narrow side as face

-stretcher ..  laid flat

-sailor stands on end with wide face forward

-veneer  ..  single whythe not structural

-vitrification ..   kilned to impervity

-apron wall  ..  between window sill and wall support

-area wall  ..  around windows around an area

-cavity  ..  continuous air space 50 -75

-curtain wall ..  non bearing wall to enclose a building

-dwarf wall ..   not to ceiling

-fire division wall

-fire wall  ..  continuous from bottom through roof

-panel wall ..  non bearing wholly supported by floor

-spandrel wall  ..  between top of window and bottom of next story window

-veneered wall ..   metal ties no structural value

-whythe one unit thick vertical row of units

 - common bond stretcher 5 rows then 1 row of headers

- English bond alternate courses  of stretcher than header

-Flemish bond one header unit then one stretcher unit in the same course

-stack bond just stacks straight up

-terra cotta glazed, moulded clay used for coping

-lintel blocks used for coping U shaped steel is laid in top and then filled with concrete or mortar

-clay facing tiles  are blocks kilned and glazed for moisture and cleanable surfaces (kitchens) similar to ceramic tiles but ceramic tiles are just veneer

-structural facing tiles same surface as thhe clay facing tile but  may be used in loadbearing walls

- stone walls: ashlar precision cut, rubble, squared stone rough cut