Building Materials - Engineering

Q1:

A bull nose brick is not used for

A rounding off sharp corners

B pillars

C decoration purpose

D arches.

ANS:D - arches.

D is correct because arches require standard brick whose compression is 100kg/cm2 and bullnose had minimum in the area as an area of brick decrease compression decreases. Given Answer is correct because bullnose brick in arches only one side will be rounded leading to the unaesthetic structure.