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| Ref. | Methods/techniques | Type of block/test specimens |
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| [8] | CIN VA-Ram hand press under a certain amount of pressure (about 1.0 MN/m2). | Hollow block |
| [9] | Hydraulic compressing machine. | Interlocking blocks |
| [10] | Hand-operated compression machine. | Solid block |
| [11] | The clay is mixed and crushed with sand and then mixed with 10–15% water. The fresh mixture is extruded to form a long cable of material that is cut into bricks of the desired length. | Solid block |
| [12] | TERSTARAM appro-techno. This machine produces two CEBs at each pressing and has a system to adjust the height and volume of the mold with steel plates. | Solid and smooth blocks |
| [5] | No machine was described for mixing. | Cylindrical samples |
| [13] | Motorized hydraulic press where it was compacted by a 24-ton load. | Solid block |
| [14] | Compacting the mixture at the optimum moisture content in a human-powered mechanical press. | Solid block |
| [15] | Automatic mixer, self-fitting, soil-cement blocks were fabricated by press-molding. | Hollow block |
| [16] | CSM mixer, the model V2 Vimaq manual 15-ton press. | Hollow block |
| [17] | Hydraulic press of 250 tons compression ratio according to NBR 10836 and NBR 10835. | Hollow block |
| [18] | Manual press with the following characteristics; Lever’s arm: 1800 mm, internal dimension of the mold: 300 mm × 150 mm × 100 m, applied force: 1 kN, compression mode: static. | Hollow block |
| [19] | Molding (compaction) pressure was controlled by a digital compression testing machine, having a capacity of 1000 kN and least count of 100 N. Experiments were carried out for a molding pressure of 1.25–7.5 MPa at 1.25 MPa intervals. | Cylindrical samples |
| [20] | Hydraulic compressing machine. | Hollow block |
| [6] | The blocks were made with a pressure gauge hydraulic block-making machine with a constant pressure of 100 bars. | Solid block |
| [21] | BREPAC block-making machine with a constant pressure of 10 MPa. | Solid block |
| [22] | The machine is not described in the article. The blocks were cast by controlling the dry density of the blocks. | Solid block |
| [23] | CINVA-Ram press machine and manually pressed to produce the blocks. | Solid block |
| [24] | Compacting the mixture at the optimum moisture content in a human-powered mechanical press. | Solid block |
| [25] | Compaction of the wet mix was done in a heavy-duty steel mold using a test mark CM-500 series compression machine with a maximum compression capacity of 2224 kN. | Solid block |
| [26] | Manual compaction press (VIMAQ V2). | Solid block |
| [27] | Same as unconfined compression cylinders for testing soil specimens, the difference being that the sample was cast in the mold prepared for blocks. | Solid block |
| [28] | The hydraulic model with a capacity of 20 ton. | Solid block |
| [29] | 40 times of hand tapping were performed for each layer with a steel rod. Then, the mold cover was locked, and forming pressure of 10 MPa was applied. | Not mentioned |
| [30] | A manual press manufactured by the Habitec Center at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. | Hollow block |
| [31] | Tinius Olsen H50KS machine compressed at 10 MPa pressure. | Cylindrical and cubical samples |
| [32] | Samples were prepared by using a hydraulic press. | Cubic sample |
| [33] | CINVA-Ram press machine. | Solid block |
| [34] | Followed ABNT NBR 10833 and used hydraulic press. | Hollow block |
| [35] | Blocks were hand pressed at the optimum moisture content. | Solid block |
| [36] | Hydraulic press, under 15 tons of pressure. | Hollow block |
| [37] | Manual press using a mechanical molder. | Solid block |
| [38] | No machine was described for mixing. | Cubic sample |
| [7] | Hydraulic press and the compaction pressure were controlled and maintained. | Hollow block |
| [39] | Hydraulic press with compaction at 1.37 × 109 N/m2. | Hollow block |
| [40] | Mix was loaded in the brick press for pressing blocks and molded into standard dimensions. | Not mentioned |
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