Otimização e estudo do comportamento do solo-cimento auto-adensável

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Contribuição para a otimização de traços de concreto utilizados na produção de blocos estruturais

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Sistema inteligente baseado nas redes neurais artificiais para dosagem do concreto

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Desempenho estrutural de blocos, primas, mini-paredes e paredes de alvenaria estrutural confeccionadas com blocos cerâmicos produzidos a partir da mistura de lama vermelha com argila

Novas técnicas de aprimoramento de resíduos tem se tornado cada vez mais importante na construção civil, principalmente quando se trata da utilização de resíduos de outros segmentos industriais e na redução de matérias primas naturais. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a utilização de um resíduo proveniente da produção da alumina metalúrgica conhecido como lama vermelha (LV), no desempenho estrutural de blocos, prismas, mini-paredes e paredes confeccionados com blocos cerâmicos, com seções transversais, reticulada e circular, produzidos a partir da mistura de LV e argila. Foram realizados ensaios experimentais correspondentes à caracterização dos materiais empregados e ensaios de resistência à compressão das unidades, blocos, prismas, mini-paredes e paredes. Todos os materiais e unidades cumpriram com os requisitos normalizados para sua correta utilização nos testes experimentais. Os resultados obtidos dos ensaios a compressão dos elementos demonstraram que os blocos confeccionados com a mistura de LV e argila atenderam aos parâmetros normativos e apresentaram resultados satisfatórios e superiores aos componentes confeccionados com blocos cerâmicos compostos com 100% de argila, empregados usualmente nas construções.

Comportamento de blocos cerâmicos estruturais produzidos a partir da mistura de lama vermelha e argila

A utilização de novas técnicas de aproveitamento de resíduos tem-se tornado cada vez mais importante na construção civil, principalmente quando se trata da utilização de resíduos de outros segmentos industriais e da redução de consumo de matérias-primas naturais. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a utilização da lama vermelha, resíduo proveniente da produção de alumina metalúrgica, na produção de blocos cerâmicos vazados estruturais. A produção dos blocos foi realizada em uma indústria cerâmica, a partir de uma mistura de 60% de lama vermelha (LV) e de 40% de argila. Após a produção dos blocos, realizaram-se ensaios de acordo com as normas técnicas, tais como absorção de água e compressão axial simples. A partir da análise dos resultados, observou-se que os blocos estruturais produzidos a partir da mistura de LV e argila atenderam aos parâmetros normativos quanto ao índice de absorção de água e de resistência à compressão, e que as resistências médias e características desses blocos foram superiores às dos blocos cerâmicos de referência.

Nanocompósito de alumina com inclusão nonométricas de zircônia para infraestruturas de próteses odontológicas livres de metal: avaliação de prosperidades mecânicas e análise microestrutural. -

Pós-graduação em Reabilitação Oral - FOAR

Influence of the surface treatment of tire rubber residues added in mortars

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Avaliação do desempenho das propriedades mecânicas de concretos self compacting elaborados com diferentes tipos de cimentos submetidos à cura térmica

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Propriedades físico-químicas e mecânicas, potencial bioativo e caracterização da interface dentina-cimento de cimentos endodônticos experimentais à base de cimento Portland associados à radiopacificadores micro e nanoparticulados

Pós-graduação em Odontologia - FOAR

Estudo da aderência entre o concreto celular e as barras de aço

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Civil - FEIS

Estudo das propriedades mecânicas do concreto com adição de cinza de casca de arroz

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Incorporação de nanopartículas de óxido de zinco a um cimento de ionômero de vidro por meio da calcinação: avaliação de propriedades mecânicas e físicas

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Laboratory study of grouted macadams impregnated with mine waste geopolymeric binder

A new type of pavement has been gaining popularity over the last few years in Europe. It comprises a surface course with a semi-flexible material that provides significant advantages in comparison to both concrete and conventional asphalt, having both rut resistance and a degree of flexibility. It also provides good protection against the ingress of water to the foundation, since it has an impermeable surface. The semi-flexible material, generally known as grouted macadam, comprises an open-graded asphalt skeleton with 25% to 35% voids into which a cementitious slurry is grouted. This hybrid mixture provides good rut resistance and a surface highly resistant to fuel and oil spillage. Such properties allow it to be used in industrial areas, airports and harbours, where those situations are frequently associated with heavy and slow traffic. Grouted Macadams constitute a poorly understood branch of pavement technology and have generally been relegated to a role in certain specialist pavements whose performance is predicted on purely empirical evidence. Therefore, the main objectives of this project were related to better understanding the properties of this type of material, in order to predict its performance more realistically and to design pavements incorporating grouted macadam more accurately. Based on a standard mix design, several variables were studied during this project in order to characterise the behaviour of Grouted Macadams in general, and the influence of those variables on the fundamental properties of the final mixture. In this research project, one approach was used to the design of pavements incorporating Grouted Macadams: a traditional design method, based on laboratory determined of the stiffness modulus and the compressive strength.

Nondestructive evaluation of concrete compression strength by means of Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

The evaluation of structural performance of existing concrete buildings, built according to standards and materials quite different to those available today, requires procedures and methods able to cover lack of data about mechanical material properties and reinforcement detailing. To this end detailed inspections and test on materials are required. As a consequence tests on drilled cores are required; on the other end, it is stated that non-destructive testing (NDT) cannot be used as the only mean to get structural information, but can be used in conjunction with destructive testing (DT) by a representative correlation between DT and NDT. The aim of this study is to verify the accuracy of some formulas of correlation available in literature between measured parameters, i.e. rebound index, ultrasonic pulse velocity and compressive strength (SonReb Method). To this end a relevant number of DT and NDT tests has been performed on many school buildings located in Cesena (Italy). The above relationships have been assessed on site correlating NDT results to strength of core drilled in adjacent locations. Nevertheless, concrete compressive strength assessed by means of NDT methods and evaluated with correlation formulas has the advantage of being able to be implemented and used for future applications in a much more simple way than other methods, even if its accuracy is strictly limited to the analysis of concretes having the same characteristics as those used for their calibration. This limitation warranted a search for a different evaluation method for the non-destructive parameters obtained on site. To this aim, the methodology of neural identification of compressive strength is presented. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) suitable for the specific analysis were chosen taking into account the development presented in the literature in this field. The networks were trained and tested in order to detect a more reliable strength identification methodology.

Elaboration et caractérisation de ciments géopolymères à base de scories volcaniques

Two types of volcanic ashes referenced as ZD (volcanic ashes from Djoungo) and ZG (volcanic ashes from Galim) were collected from two Cameroonian localities. They were characterized (chemical and mineralogical compositions, amorphous phase content, particle size distribution and specific surface area) and used as raw materials for the synthesis of geopolymer cements at ambient temperature of laboratory (24 ± 3 °C). The synthesized products were characterized by determining their setting time, linear shrinkage and compressive strength, X-ray Diffraction, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy. The mineralogical composition, the amorphous phase content, the particle size distribution, the specific surface area of the volcanic ashes as well as the mass ratio of the alkaline solution (sodium silicate / sodium hydroxide) were the main parameters which influenced the synthesis of geopolymers with interesting characteristics at ambient temperature (24 ± 3 °C). The volcanic ashes (ZD) whose mineralogical composition contained anhydrite, low amorphous phase content and low specific surface area led to long setting times. Moreover, its products swelled and presented cracks due to the formation of ettringite and these resulted in low compressive strengths (7 to 19 MPa). The volcanic ashes (ZG) containing high amounts of amorphous phase and high specific surface area led geopolymers with setting times between 490 and 180 minutes and compressive strength between 7 and 50 MPa at ambient temperature of laboratory. The properties of geopolymers were improved when elaborated with a mixture of volcanic ashes and metakaolin (ZD–MK and ZG–MK). For geopolymers obtained from ZD–MK, the setting time was between 500 and 160 minutes while it was between 220 and 125 minutes for geopolymers obtained from ZG–MK. The compressive strength greatly increased between 23 and 68 MPa and 39 and 64 MPa for geopolymers obtained from ZG –MK and ZD–MK respectively. A comparative study of the properties of mixtures of metakaolin–alumina and volcanic ash–alumina based geopolymers shows that metakaolin is a good source of Al2O3 and SiO2 and which highly reactive with alkaline solution and produces geopolymers with better characteristics compared to volcanic ash based–geopolymer. The properties of volcanic ash–based geopolymer were also improved when amorphous alumina was incorporated into the volcanic ash. This additive is used to compensate the deficiencies in Al2O3 content in the volcanic ash. Compare to when volcanic ash is used alone 20 to 40 % incorporation of this additive corresponded to increases of the compressive strength by 18.1 % for metakaolin-alumina based-geopolymers and by 32.4 % for volcanic ash-based geopolymers.