Concretos submetidos a ciclos de temperaturas elevadas: estudos experimentais em corpos de prova localizados em unidades de produção de uma usina siderúrgica

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Renato Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3936
• topic: high temperature; concrete; structure; steel plant; degradation; Alta temperatura; concreto armado; estrutura; usina siderúrgica; degradação; Engenharia Civil; Concreto armado; Altas temperaturas; Usinas siderúrgicas; 624

This work aims at evaluating the degradation state in concretes located in a production unit at a steel plant, which were submitted to long periods of exposure to high temperature cycles from production process, by researching the effects on their physical and mechanical properties, and also the changes on their microstructure. In order to develop this experimental program, 2 lots of concrete samples were molded: the first one with compressive strength characteristic (fck) ≥ 30 MPa and water and cement relation w/c ≤ 0,55; the second one with compressive strength characteristic (fck) ≥ 40 MPa and water and cement relation w/c ≤ 0,45. These samples were exposed to similar termic cycles periods, placed at specific locations in the steel plant where high temperatures were identified on concrete structures from steel production process. During the evaluation period, the concrete samples were submitted to the same termic cycles that concrete structures are exposed. In addition, some control concrete samples were molded with the same technical features, but these ones were stored in water saturated with lime, in a room with temperature control in order to compare the result of both tests. After this step, all the concrete samples were submitted to laboratory tests for verification of compressive strength, elastic modulus, quantity of voids, water absorption, carbonation depth, adhesion of steel bar and microstructure verification. As a result, it was possible to observe that the termic cycles caused changes at concrete properties in the evaluated concrete samples. These changes provided the understanding of concrete state of degradation in several locations at a steel plant where there are high temperature cycles acting on the concrete.