RESUMO Neste artigo, resíduos de areias de fundição (RAFs) originários de: escavação em aterro sanitário industrial e diretamente de indústrias siderúrgicas automotivas foram testados como agregado em misturas asfálticas à quente. Estes RAFs, juntamente com o agregado miúdo convencional, foram caracterizados fisicamente obtendo no ensaio de: material pulverulento, teores inferiores a 13%; composição granulométrica, curvas de material passante em função da abertura das malhas equivalentes ao agregado miúdo (segundo a norma de agregados); densidade real, aparente e saturada muito próximas ao agregado mineral; micrografia óptica, imagens ampliadas (de 10 e 40 vezes obtidas em um Estereoscópio óptico) das frações representativas do maior e menor tamanhos de grãos, visualmente uniformes e semelhantes entre si. Em seguida, foram elaboradas formulações de misturas de agregados e RAFs contendo teores de substituição dos resíduos de: 0% (mistura Controle), 50 e 100% em relação ao pó de pedra e moldados corpos de prova cilíndricos pelo método giratório SUPERPAVE com cimento asfáltico do tipo CAP 30/45. Estes CPs foram testados no ensaio de tração por compressão diametral, obtendo valores de resistência a tração (RT) da ordem de: 2,0 MPa, para as misturas contendo 50% de RAF (das duas origens) e da ordem de 1,3 MPa nas misturas contendo 100% de RAF; e ensaio de módulo de resiliência obtendo valores médios da ordem de: 2500 a 6000 MPa. Concluiu-se que o RAF possui viabilidade técnica como agregado em pavimentos flexíveis.

ABSTRACT In this paper, residues of foundry sand (RFS) originating from: excavation in industrial landfill and from automotive steel industries were tested as aggregate in hot mix asphalt mixtures. These RFS together with the conventional aggregate were physically characterized at the assays: pulverulent material content by weight, obtaining less than 13%; sieve analysis determined the fine granulometry of these materials (according to the aggregate standard); real, apparent and saturated density very close to the mineral aggregate; and the applied images (10 and 40-fold) obtained in an optical stereoscope of the representative fractions of larger and smaller grain sizes, determined a visually uniform and similar between the materials. Then, were made formulations of mixtures of aggregates and RFS, were substitution of the manufactured sand by the residues of 0% (Control mixture), 50 and 100% in weight and were molded cylindrical specimens (CS) by gyratory compaction method, with asphalt binder type CAP 30/45. These CS were tested in the splitting tensile strength assay obtaining values ??of tensile strength (TS) of the order of 2,0 MPa, for mixtures containing 50% of RFS and of the order of 1,3 MPa in mixtures containing 100% RFS (of two origins); and test of resilience module obtaining average values of the order of: 2500 to 6000 MPa. It was concluded that the RFS has technical viability as an aggregate in flexible pavements.

ABSTRACT Adequate compacting is an important stage contributing for the durability and final quality of concrete structures. The two main ways of compacting concrete are: manual and mechanical (immersion vibrator). This paper has the goal of verifying the influence of those two compacting methods on the compressive strength of concrete from long term data. In order to do that, cylindrical test specimens of a same concrete were molded with different compacting methods and the compressive strength was investigated at 1, 3 , 7, 14, 21, 28, 63, 91, 180, 365 and 730 days. Concrete used was casted in plant. Manual compacting was performed using a metallic and cylindrical rod. Mechanical compacting was performed using a rigid immersion vibrator driven by an electric motor. This study confirmed greater compressive strength in test specimens compacted with immersion vibrator, when compared with results in manually compacted test specimens. However, the novelty of this article is that variance analysis test demonstrated that only from 63 days the difference between compressive strengths is significant. Long term data also made it possible to generate a trend equation with good coefficient of determination for estimating the difference between compressive strengths for the two compacting methods investigated over time.

Este trabalho analisa a variação de fatores ambientais (chuva e vento) e sua influência sobre as edificações. Os resultados para o período de 2000 a 2010 mostram uma variação considerável entre índices máximos e mínimos destes fatores no Brasil, e pode subsidiar adaptações nas normas técnicas visando a aumentar a vida útil de edificações e reduzir o impacto sobre o ambiente construído.

This work analyzes environmental factors (rain and winds) range and its influence under the buildings. The results for the analyzed period (2000-2010) showed a considerable variation among the maximum and minimum index to Brazil and could support adaptation of technical standards for buildings in order to increase their lifetime, and consequently reduce the impact over the built environment.