Avaliação do uso de agregado de resíduo de construção civil nas propriedades do concreto no slump para fabricação de artefatos de concreto

Abstract

One of the applications of aggregates from the recycling of civil construction waste (CCW) is in no slump concrete manufacturing. This type of concrete is used in the manufacture of parts shaped by vibration and vibrocompression, for example. However, the characteristics of CCW aggregates make it difficult to measure this type of concrete, since there are variations in the workability depending on the morphology and water absorption. The study of CCW aggregate is important because its use changes the concrete properties, especially in no slump concrete, due to the necessity to maintain the form immediately after the demolding. Therefore, the present work aim to evaluate the effect of the CCW aggregate on the no slump concrete characteristics, with the evaluation of the influence of the particle formation process and the pre-wetting of the aggregate on the rheological properties and the compression strength. For this, concrete compositions were studied using recycled aggregates with different contents of excess paste and different water/cement (a/c) ratios, in addition to the composition suggested by ABCP for concrete used in curb with natural aggregates. With the composition that presented the best results and with the reference mix design it was performed the analysis of the manufacturing cost of a piece of curb with each of the concretes, in order to evaluate the economic impact of the replacement of the aggregate. It was observed differences between the recycled and natural aggregates, both in relation to the properties and morphology, facts that resulted in different characteristics also in the concretes obtained. In the pre-wetting study, it was possible to observe that different pre-wetting rates resulted in different behaviors in both the fresh and hardened state, with a 60% variation in the compressive strength between 75 and 65% pre-wetting rates. By obtaining traces varying the excess of paste and a/c it can be observed that the composition with a/c of 0.35 and paste content of -5% was the one that resulted in better characteristics for the production of vibration pieces. Although this composition reached the minimum of 11 MPa required by standard for the production of curb, the cost for manufacturing a piece of concrete with recycled aggregate was 17% higher than the cost with natural aggregates, a result linked to the higher consumption of cement required by concrete with CCW to achieve the required strength.