Brickyard Construction

A brickyard is a place where bricks are made, fired and stored.

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The colour of the finished bricks depends on mineral content of bricks and the temperature at which they are burned. Pink bricks are the result of a high iron content, white or yellow bricks have a higher lime content. Most bricks burn to various red hues, if temperature is increased the colour moves through dark red, purple and then to brown or grey at around 1300°C. A wider range of shades is produced from calcium silicate bricks.

Bricks are used for building and pavement. In the USA, brick pavement was found incapable of withstanding heavy traffic, but is coming back into use as a method of traffic calming or as a decorative surface in pedestrian precincts. Bricks are also used in the metallurgy and glass industries for lining furnaces. They have various uses, especially refractory bricks such as silica, magnesia, chamotte and neutral (chromomagnesite) refractory bricks. This type of brick must have good thermal shock resistance, refractoriness under load, high melting point, and porosity. There is a large refractory brick industry, especially in the United Kingdom, Japan and the U.S.A..

Sodium carbonate is also used in the brick industry as a wetting agent to reduce the amount of water needed to extrude the clay.

The Allstate 400 at The Brickyard is an annual 400-mile (644 km) NASCAR Nextel Cup points race held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana.