ESTUDO EXPERIMENTAL DE COMPACTAÇÃO E EXPANSÃO DE UMA ESCÓRIA DE ACIARIA LD PARA USO EM PAVIMENTAÇÃO / EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF COMPACTION AND EXPANSIBILITY OF THE STEEL SLAG FOR USE IN PAVEMENTS

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The steel slag or BOF (Basic Oxygen Furnace) slag is a by-product generated in integrated steel plants. The use of this material in bases and sub-bases of pavements may present technical, economical and environmental advantages compared to natural aggregates. However, problems, like the expansibility and the deficiency of technical criteria for its acceptance, limit the use of steel slags in pavements. The expansibility of steel slags is mainly generated by hydration of free calcium and magnesium oxides (CaO and MgO). The purpose of this study is to evaluate compaction and expansibility of a steel slag using laboratory tests. And then contributing for definition of technical criteria of expansibility evaluation of this material for use in bases and sub-bases of pavements. The steel slag of this study is originated in a integrated steel plant located in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil. In this work, the laboratory compaction tests were conducted using standard and modified effort, and for the expansibility tests three methods were used: PTM-130/78, JIS 5015/92 and ASTM D4792/00. The compaction tests of the steel slag did not yield optimum water content, showing the same characteristic of granular materials. Statistical analysis of compaction tests did not show significant differences between two procedures (with and without reuse of material), between two efforts of compaction (standard and modified effort) and between two different samples (with and without treatment for expansion reduction). The statistical analysis of expansibility tests using method PTM-130/78 show that: The water content of compaction was not statistically significant in the expansion results; the influence of the temperature in the expansion results was statistically significant; and the influence of the effort of compaction in the expansion results was statistically significant. Also a technical criterion for acceptance of lots of steel slag is proposed here, using PTM- 130/78 test method. The criterion includes sampling procedure, a statistical significant methodology to calculate the minimum number of specimens and the maximum limit of 3% expansion using PTM-130/78 test method.

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ensaios de laboratório steel slag escória de aciaria ld expansibility bases e sub-bases pavimentação compactação engenharia civil compaction pavement laboratory tests base and sub-base expansão

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