Determinação do módulo de elasticidade dinâmico em concreto via técnica de excitação por impulso

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Carlos Alexandre Pereira de
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/3225
• topic: ENGENHARIA DE MATERIAIS; ENGENHARIA CIVIL; ESTRUTURAS DE CONCRETO; RESISTÊNCIA DOS MATERIAIS; MATERIAIS - PROPRIEDADES; CONCRETO; ELASTICIDADE; ARGILA; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS

The non-destructive dynamic analysis is an important tool for testing the integrity and safety of and structure, once it can identify and locate damage and detect changes in its deformability. The dynamic test also provides the values of frequency and other parameters, whose variations can be used to identify not only the presence of damage but also to determine the equivalent stiffness of material. In addition, the dynamic non-destructive testing has the advantage of providing overall information of the structure and can be repeated and compared over time. The main objective of this study was to determine the elastic modulus of different concrete mixtures with the presence of expanded clay. For this purpose, we used the Impulse Excitation Technique, which is one of dynamic nondestructive techniques, wherein the determination of the dynamic modulus of elasticity is made from natural frequencies of vibration. The dynamic modulus of elasticity was compared with the static modulus of elasticity (initial tangent modulus and secant modulus) calculated from the static tests of simple uniaxial compression. As the compressive strength, the values of initial tangent modulus (Ec0) and the secant modulus (Ecs) determined from the compression tests were dependent on the characteristics of concrete, increasing as the cement content increased. The value of the secant modulus of elasticity was more appropriate as compared with the tangent modulus due to its better correlation with the value of dynamic modulus of elasticity. The results indicate that the nondestructive testing via impulse excitation can be used to determine the dynamic modulus of elasticity of concrete with expanded clay.