Determination of Selected Mechanical and Physical Properties of Historic Full Burnt Bricks in Frame of Project of Monitoring their Diffusion Properties

How perhaps everybody from us must notice the degradation of buildings is omnipresent and it doesnt avoid even historic buildings that many times belong to our national heritage. Most of historic buildings were built from the most common material of that time, i.e. from full burnt bricks. But these bricks werent as similar as eggs are each other how it is ordinary for materials at these days. Within our research project the tests that determine the ranges of properties of the historic bricks were performed. The tests of mechanical properties and particularly damp tests were performed. The goal of our research was also the comparison of surface finishing of full burnt bricks from the point of view of diffusion transport of moisture. This paper summarizes valuable results that show what range of properties of historic bricks we can expect and how we should behave towards these old buildings in our best.