Análise da viabilidade técnica de utilização de resíduos de concreto oriundos da pré-fabricação como agregado graúdo para a produção de novos concretos

Abstract

The concern about the environment and the lack of natural resources has led all segments of society to the search for more sustainable alternatives of growth. In this run for environmental welfare, the recycling of material waste seems to be a good alternative for the reduction of the impact caused by the messy consumption of raw material and the reduction of provision areas, by virtue of the great amount of discarded waste every year in the world. In this context is the waste coming from civil construction, the focus of this work, which aims to study the influence of the use of recycled concrete aggregate for the production of new concrete and also the verification of the recycling potential of the waste generated by the industry ofprecast concrete located in the city of Porto Alegre. For new concrete matrixes crafted three traces, with the two waste materials generated in most part by the industry, having the replacement of the natural coarse aggregate been done with the recycled concrete in the volume of 50%. Compensation water was used in the making of concrete with recycled aggregate due to different levels of water absorption. In this new concrete was checked the influence of the recycled aggregate over the mechanical properties (resistance to compression and traction), durability property (water absorption) and was observed the monitoring of the evolution of temperature of the hydration reactions. From the results obtained, statistical analyses and mathematical models were made. It can be concluded that the concrete manufactured with RCAs (recycled concrete aggregate) coming from the conventional cure process showed increase in the properties of resistance to compression and to traction, while the ones coming from the process of thermal cure show decrease when compared to the reference. As for the property of water absorption, there is an increase for both kinds of RCAs when compared to the reference, not constituting a significant increase in real scale. For the monitoring of the temperature evolution of the hydration reactions of the concrete paste was verified decrease of the beginning of time for samples containing recycled aggregate without the presence of additive, when compared to the reference, was verified higher values of temperature, not having been observed any tendency regarding as start and end times for the evolution of temperarure the reactions of hydration of concrete samples.