Comportamento mecânico com resíduos industriais, sob flexão a quatro pontos, para construção de pavimentos flexíveis

Abstract

The historical retrospective of the pavements in Manaus and an expressive fraction of the municipalities in the State of Amazonas proves its early structural failure due to the scarcity of petrous materials and sublayers with low support. Literature shows the use of industrial waste for soil stabilization, as well as gains in mechanical performance of asphalt mixtures as an alternative solution to the paving regions where there is shortage of aggregates and high cost on transportation of these materials. In the present work, the effect of industrial waste on the chemical and physical stabilization of a soil from the region of Iranduba/AM was evaluated, and on the asphalt concrete dosage, aiming to increase the capacity of support as well as the final destination of environmental liabilities. The waste used were carbide lime (LC), a by-product of acetylene gas produced in the Industrial Pole of Manaus (IPM) and the residue of Curauá fiber, a natural and region material used by the automobile indrustry. Beams were molded with soil and soil-lime, soil-fiber and soil-lime-fiber compositions, in proportions of 2% lime and 1,5% fiber, related to the dry soil mass. Curing of the samples was carried out in a oven for 24 and 48 hours at 60oC. It was also molded traditional asphalt concrete beams with the addition of carbide lime. The mechanical behavior was determined by the 4-point flexural test, considering regional traffic and temperature conditions. Results for soil compositions with industrial waste revealed an increase in the dynamic stiffness modulus, such as a decrease in the phase angle reflecting the negligible viscous portion of the natural material. The asphalt beams presented a contrary answer. The results of dynamic stiffness module of the traditional and alternative asphalt compositions were compared, according to the theory of Euller-Bernoulli. It was verified the perfect adjustment of the theoretical function with the experimental points. Therefore, the present work corroborates the technical feasibility of the use of carbide lime and Curauá fiber residue in pavement engineering.