Racking Test of tile bonding method at lightweight lath-mortar wall

Abstract

The demand to the lath-mortar wall for tile bonding finish is high.It is the hand work with a cement mortar or an elastic binder.But there are a lot of voices to have misgivings about tiled safety to the lath- mortar wall. One side,The pre-mix lightweight mortar have come into wide use recently as lath-mortar.It is assumed that the lightweght mortar is unsuitable to the tile bonding finish because strength is lower than concrete and mortar. In this report, the racking test was done and the danger of the dropout of the mortar layer and Flaking-off of tile was confirmed about the three kinds of tiled materials.