What is the general size of bricks?

The shape of ordinary brick is right-angled hexahedron, and its nominal size is: 240mm× 1 15mm×53mm.

Brick is a rectangular stone used to build walls. It is made of clay, mostly red, commonly known as "red brick" and "blue brick". The size of China standard clay brick is 240× 1 15×53mm, and the purpose of this size is to ensure that the ratio of length to width of brick is 4:2: 1 (including mortar joint width 10mm).

Brick is the most traditional masonry material. From clay as the main raw material, it has gradually developed to the utilization of industrial wastes such as coal gangue and fly ash, and at the same time, it has developed from solid to porous hollow, from sintering to non-sintering.

Extended data:

Classification of bricks: according to the different parts used in construction projects, bricks are divided into wall bricks, floor bricks, arch shell bricks, floor bricks, sewer bricks and chimney bricks. According to the different nature of buildings, wall bricks can be divided into bearing bricks, non-bearing bricks, engineering bricks, thermal insulation bricks, sound-absorbing bricks, decorative bricks, ceramic tiles and so on.

Brick and tile history: Brick and tile, as building materials, has a long history in China. When it comes to the history of bricks and tiles, people always think of "Qin bricks and Han tiles". The hollow bricks, strip bricks and plank bricks found in the excavation of the Western Zhou Dynasty noble tombs at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain show that this is a large-scale settlement of Yangshao culture (6000 years ago), Longshan culture (4000 years ago) and Qianzhou-Western Zhou culture (about 3 100 to 2770 years ago) in the Neolithic Age.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-bricks