Desenvolvimento de blocos de concreto para construção de silos circulares de alvenaria sem função estrutural.

Abstract

Nowaday it's estimated that 25% o f the grains produced in Brazil are lost in the crop and post-crop phases, some of this refer to storage, but it can be minimized if the country stimulate stocking up the production in the farms. So it's neccssary to havc a simple technology available, as the construction of bin in the production places. In order to help a crop storage politic in the farms, in the prcscnt work we studied concrcte blocks that can be used to build masonry cylindrical bin. We developed a block with a special geometry to use in these bin, the water absorption, compression and traction resistances of the blocks were analyzed they were made with 1:3, 1:4 and 1:6 mixture and then submitted to two types o f cure: natural and submerged. Among the mixture studied to build the blocks the 1:6 mixture didn't reach the required resistance by the NBR 7173, but the resistance of the block with ali mixture was superior to the efforts in a bin with the same dimensions. There isn't an specilic norm for traction resistance, so we developed a methodology to simulate the traction efforts that the cylindrical bin walls were submitted, the blocks were moulded with 1:3 and 1:4 mixture, we get a superior resistance to the onc required to an bin with 4 metros in height and height/diameter relation equal to one.