Table 7-3.-Nominal Height of Concrete Masonry Walls
by Courses
Table 7-2.-Nominal Length of Concrete Masonry Walls
by Stretchers
hollow tiles, structural clay tiles, structural clay
hollow tiles, and structural clay hollow building
tiles, but most commonly called building tile. In
building tile manufacture, plastic clay is pugged
through a die, and the shape that emerges is cut
off into units. The units are then burned much
as bricks are burned.
The apertures in a building tile, which
correspond to the cores in a brick or a concrete
block, are called CELLS. The solid sides of a tile
are called the SHELL and the perforated material
enclosed by the shell is called the WEB. A tile
that is laid on one of its shell faces is
called a SIDE-CONSTRUCTION tile; one that
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