Testing of bricks intended for the repair of monuments

The bachelor thesis is focused on methods of testing bricks, which will use to classify historic bricks into groups on usable, usable in extreme conditions, usable in limited extent and unusable for restoration of monuments or for construct new constructions. In the theoretical part, there is describe of historical development of solid fired bricks in Central Europe and an overview of methods for testing bricks, including a description of an accomplishments and their evaluation. In the practical part, there are methods applied to three visually different sets of bricks taken from 19th century construction