Avaliação do comportamento elástico de concretos produzidos com substituição parcial dos agregados graúdos naturais por reciclados de concreto a partir de ensaios Estático e Dinâmico

Abstract

The construction industry causes a great environmental impact due to the generation of waste and the high consumption of raw material. Increasing demands for areas to become landfills, as well as shortages of natural resources, have favored the use of construction and demolition waste as a source of aggregate. In this context, many studies have been made regarding concretes produced with the use of demolition and construction waste; mainly focused on the mechanical properties of tensile and compressive strength. However, in order to use concretes produced with waste as a structural material, the stress-strain behavior and, particularly, the elastic modulus are important parameters to be analyzed, once they are directly related to structural design. Based on that, the objective of this project is to analyze the elastic behavior of concretes using coarse natural aggregates (NA) and 50% of substitution of these aggregate by coarse recycled concrete aggregates (RCA). The elastic behavior was determined by both a destructive method (static) and a nondestructive one (dynamic) on the ages of 7, 28 and 63 days for the loading levels of 0 (only dynamic), 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80% of respective concrete strength. The found results for the Modulus of Elasticity have been compared to estimates based on the empirical recommendations by CEB-FIP Model Code 1990, ACI 318 (2011) and NBR 6118 (ABNT, 2007 and 2014) standards. The objectives of this work were to observe the influence of the RCA on the elastic properties of concrete; to compare the elastic behavior between concretes with and without RCA, to study the correlation of both experimental methods (dynamic and static) and finally to check the relation between measured and calculated values of modulus of elasticity. The conclusions indicate that concretes with and without RCA have similar elastic limits (between 40% and 50% of the concrete strength); it is not possible to identify a unique relationship between the values obtained by dynamic and static methods for both concretes; it is not possible to assert that concretes with similar strength, but different ages, have different modulus; the values of modulus of elasticity obtained by the static method for both concretes are significantly below that indicated by the considered standards; the values of modulus of elasticity obtained by the dynamic method for concrete with and without RCA are contained in the range between the more and less conservative standards and concretes with RCA have a similar behavior than concretes without RCA, but are less rigid (larger strain for the same stress).