Avaliação da resistência à compressão e da absorção de água de concretos utilizados após o tempo máximo de mistura e transporte especificado pela NBR 7212 / Evaluation of compressive strength and water absorption of concrete used after the maximum time of mixing and transport specified by NBR 7212

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2012

RESUMO

The Brazilian standard NBR 7212 (ABNT, 1984), for execution of ready-mixed concrete, specifies the maximum time for concrete to be discharged (used) completely in 150 minutes. The usage time of the concrete is due to reactions of the cement hydration and slump loss that occurs with fresh concrete, a normal phenomenon defined as the loss of fluidity along the time. This property of concrete is particularly important in the case of ready-mixed concrete plants, because the first contact of water with the cement is in the ready-mixed concrete plants while launching / densification occurs minutes or hours later, when the mixer truck arrives at the construction site. In fact, often, there are situations where trucks are loaded with concrete by 4 or 5 hours, due to delays in transportation or unloading, characterizing some time well above the limit specified by the standard. The question is to use or not use the concrete on these conditions, because there are no studies that confirm the final properties of the concrete when used with mixing time that have already exceeded the maximum limit specified by the standard. The aim of this study is to investigate the behavior of concrete from viewpoint of compressive strength and water absorption when used with mixing time up to 6 hours. The concretes were produced with two types of cement, CPIV and CPII, and slump was kept up to the six hours in a mixture with the incorporation of superplasticizer based polycarboxylate. In this study were adopted three relations w/c and the production of concrete was done in laboratory and real conditions in a ready-mixed concrete plants. The studied properties, compressive strength and water absorption were analyzed in 28 days for several mixing times. The study showed that the time of use from the concrete can be extended over the time specified by the standard, without loss of compressive strength and changes in the water absorption over time.

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concreto armado : ensaios concrete produced in central resistência à compressão mixing time compressive strength absorção de água water absorption superplasticizer

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