Estudo da viabilidade técnica da aplicação de solo saprolítico melhorado com cimento como base de pavimento de baixo custo

Abstract

When analyzing the road network of the country, it is noticed that the extension of paved roads is very small. This fact is mainly due to reduced public resources and the high costs of traditional materials utilized in the paving of roads. Increasingly performing pavements requires the utilization of local materials, which do not always have the technical properties that meet the valid standards. Thus, it is necessary the search for products or mechanisms that improve these features and that make possible the utilization of local materials to replace conventional materials. The use of cement has been, long-standing, a good additive to improve the properties of soils. This dissertation presents the results of a saprolite soil of volcanic rock, improved with cement, located in the city of Silveira Martins-RS, for application as base layer in roads of low traffic volume. The analysis seeks to avail of the concepts of Soil Mechanics along with knowledge of the Mechanical Pavement. In this research were performed, among others, characterization tests, soil classification, determination of the California Bearing Ratio (CBR), Compressive Strenght (CS), Indirect Tensile Strength (ITS) and triaxial tests of repeated loads to determine the Resilient Modulus (RM). With the results of the tests cited, it was held the mechanistic analysis, through the SisPav program in order to analyze the potential use of improved soil with cement in substitution of a conventional material. The results demonstrate that the use of these studied soils meet the normative specifications and have great potential for utilization as bases of pavement on highways with low traffic volume.