Transporte de cloretos em concretos com adições minerais e o desempenho em relação à corrosão das armaduras

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Alex Mizael
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7887
• topic: Durabilidade; Sílica ativa; Nanossílica; Metacaulim; Corrosão de armaduras; Cloretos; Durability; Silica fume; Nanosilica; Metakaolin; Reinforcement corrosion; Chlorides; ENGENHARIA CIVIL::CONSTRUCAO CIVIL

The introduction of wind energy into the brazilian energy matrix is of paramount importance for national energy policy. In this context, the viability of wind towers is a fundamental issue. In Brazil, these towers are built mainly in reinforced concrete, in regions of high aggressiveness (coastal regions, because of their greater wind potential) and, therefore, it is necessary to develop high performance concretes that are able to withstand environmental actions to which they are subjected, mainly the action of the chlorides, so that these structures reach the previously defined project life, thus guaranteeing the viability of the towers. In this sense, the present work evaluates the mechanical properties, the mechanisms of transport of chlorides and the performance in relation to the corrosion of the reinforcement, in concretes that contain high performance pozolanic mineral additions, in order to evaluate the influence of the presence of these additions in these properties. Three different study mixes were developed containing respectively, 9% of silica fume in composition with 1% of nanosilica, 5% of a high fineness metakaolin in composition with 5% of a slightly less fine metakaolin, both with high pozzolanic activity and a mix containing only 10% of the finest metakaolin, in addition to a reference mix. Analyzes related to the chloride transport are presented: penetrability and diffusion; analyzes related to the corrosion of reinforcement: induction of corrosion by aggressive solution wetting cycles and air drying, surface electrical resistivity of concrete and corrosion potential, besides the mechanical characterization. The concretes with incorporation of pozzolanic addition showed, in general, improvements in the mechanical properties. In the chloride transport properties and corrosion performance of the reinforcements, the improvements from the mineral additions were significant. Thus, it was concluded that the incorporation of the different mineral additions studied in the present work significantly altered the properties of the concrete, with a positive highlight for the properties associated with durability, in which the benefits of using mineral addition are more pronounced.