Les résidus miniers représentent les sous-produits minéraux finement broyés issus des procédés de traitement et d’enrichissement des minerais. Durant l’exploitation d’une mine, ces rejets sont habituellement transportés sous formes de pulpes et entreposés en surface dans des aires d’accumulation appelées parcs à résidus. Ces derniers sont des ouvrages, le plus souvent, difficiles à gérer et coûteux à restaurer. Ils sont à l’origine d’une multitude d’impacts environnementaux qui dépendent principalement de leur potentiel polluant, de leur mode de gestion, de la stabilité physique des infrastructures de confinement et des conditions climatiques spécifiques au site d’entreposage. Dans ce contexte, plusieurs études ont été entreprises afin de développer de nouvelles techniques qui permettraient une gestion effective et durable de ces sous-produits minéraux. Des voies de valorisation dans le domaine du BTP ont ainsi été explorées. Les résultats ont montré la possibilité de réutilisation de certains rejets miniers comme matériaux cimentaires et additifs pour mortiers ou béton. Toutefois, la majorité des formulations proposées n’ont pas dépassé le stade du laboratoire. De plus, l’utilisation des rejets miniers comme matériaux de construction est encore sujet à des difficultés en matière d’acceptabilité sociale et à d’innombrables préoccupations, notamment leur stabilité physico-chimique et leur éco-compatibilité. En parallèle, l’utilisation artisanale et non contrôlée des rejets miniers à faibles teneurs en sulfures comme matériaux de construction est en pleine croissance dans quelques pays tel que le Maroc. En effet, à proximité de quelques sites miniers abandonnés, ces rejets sont considérés comme des sables naturels et sont utilisés pour la confection de mortier de finition et de surfaçage des murs d’habitations. Ce recyclage artisanal peut constituer des risques mécaniques et environnementaux liés surtout à la non-conformité mécanique de ces matériaux et à la présence de concentrations non négligeables de métaux résiduels dans les rejets miniers. L’objectif de ce travail de recherche est donc d’évaluer l’impact de l’utilisation actuelle de deux rejets miniers marocains (Zeida et Mibladen), communément utilisés comme agrégats dans la région de la haute-Moulouya, sur les propriétés physico-chimiques des mortiers de finition et d’étudier, sur le long terme, le relargage des métaux lourds en scénario de lixiviation. Ce travail se donne aussi comme objectif spécifique, d’étudier la faisabilité technique d’utilisation des rejets miniers à faible teneur en sulfures comme substituant au sable conventionnel pour la confection de mortiers d’enduit et de maçonnerie. / Mine tailings represent the finely ground industrial by products generated throw beneficiation of ore minerals. During mine exploitation, these tailings are generally transported in slurry form to large storage facilities, called tailings ponds or impoundments. These facilities are, in most cases, difficult to manage and expensive to rehabilitate. They are responsible for the generation of important environmental impacts and significant ecological disruptions, depending on their pollution potential, management technique, physical stability and the climate conditions. In this context, numerous studies have been conducted to develop new techniques for a sustainable management of mine tailings. The feasibility of reusing some tailings in the construction sector as cementing materials and additives for mortars or concretes were successfully achieved. However, the majority of the conducted studies are still at laboratory stages. Moreover the reuse of tailings as construction material is yet subject of numerous difficulties in term of social acceptance. Various parameters are also of concern, especially the physical and chemical stability of tailings as well as their eco-compatibility. In parallel, the uncontrolled reuse of low sulfide tailings as construction material is increasing in some developing countries (e.g. Morocco). In fact, nearby some abandoned mine sites, these tailings are considered as natural sands and are used for the manufacture of surface finishing mortars. This traditional recycling may constitute mechanical and environmental risks, principally related to tailings mechanical unconformity and to their non-negligible residual metal concentrations. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to evaluate the actual impact of two Moroccan mine tailings (named Zeida and Mibladen), commonly used as aggregates in the Upper-Moulouya region, on the mechanical properties of mortars and on their long term environmental behavior. This work has also as specific aim, to study the technical feasibility of using low sulfide tailings as sand substitute for the manufacture of rendering and masonry mortars. To attain this aim, a thorough characterization of the physical, chemical and mineralogical properties as well as the geochemical behavior of mine tailings was carried out. Mechanical properties of tailings-based mortars were then measured and compared to reference samples (sand-based mortars) using different tests such as setting time, entrained air volume and compressive strength. In parallel, mortars durability and hydration products were evaluated by mean of durability tests (wetting drying cycles, sulfate attack and acid rain simulation) and analytical methods (scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and thermo-gravimetric analysis). Finally, mortar samples were submitted to various leaching tests to evaluate the pollution potential of these matrices.

Les matériaux de construction de type romain ont souvent éveillé un intérêt croissant par leur présence dans des contextes précoces, parfois bien antérieurs avant la Guerre des Gaules. Façonnés à partir de ressources naturelles, leur forme finale répond de plus à des contraintes anthropiques et culturelles. Pourtant, sans pour autant être négligés lors des opérations archéologiques, les matériaux de construction tiennent un rôle annexe dans la compréhension des sites. Les aspects économiques, techniques et architecturaux sont régulièrement évoqués, participant à la modélisation d’un « paysage » exploité autour des sites considérés, mais la question des matériaux comme marqueurs culturels témoignant des relations interculturelles entre Rome et les divers peuples gaulois n’a jamais été réellement abordée. Le récolement exhaustif des données archéologiques pour le Nord-Est de la Gaule met en évidence des rythmes distincts dans l’appropriation des nouveaux modes de construction, qui se caractérisent par des agencements de matériaux particuliers se calquant sur les limites administratives romaines. De plus, la diversité des matériaux employés est fonction de la disponibilité locale ou non des ressources nécessaires pour leur fabrication. À plus large échelle, deux groupes se définissent par des modalités opposées : des peuples pour lesquels la production des matériaux de construction se restreint aux ressources locales nécessaires et ceux pour lesquels intervient un transport relativement important de ces matériaux, parfois sur de grandes distances. Ces éléments permettent de discuter la question des identités, civiques et provinciales, qui peuvent être à l’origine de ces différences. Dans le même temps, l’espace géographique concerné par notre analyse multiscalaire montre des situations administratives, sociétales et culturelles diverses qui témoignent des relations complexes avec Rome et la romanité. / Roman building materials often arose a growing interest through their presence in early contexts, sometimes way before Gallic Wars. Made from natural resources, their final shape corresponds to anthropogenic and cultural constraints. However, even if building materials are not neglected during archaeological excavations, so far they have been considered as playing a minor part in understanding ancient sites. Economical, technical and architectural aspects are regularly mentioned, creating the picture of an exploited « landscape » around the studied areas, but the question of materials as cultural markers witnessing intercultural relations between Rome and Gallic tribes has never really been considered. The forensic listing of archaeological data for the North-Eastern Gaul highlights distinct rythms for the adoption of new construction habits, which are characterized by peculiar material arrangements echoing Roman administrative limits. Moreover, the diversity of the materials used is linked to the local presence or absence of the required resources for their production. On a wider scale, two groups can be defined by opposed terms : Gallic tribes only concerned by local natural resources for the production of building materials and those who transport them, sometimes over great distances. These elements allow us to discuss the issue about the double aspect of identities (civic and provincial) which can be the source of these discrepancies. In the same time, the geographical area concerned by our multi-scale analysis shows various administrative, social and cultural situations testifying of complex relations maintained with Rome and the Roman culture.

The commercial harvesting of Phragmites australis reeds in the Tembe Elephant Park, Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal was investigated to determine the impact of reed use on the Muzi Swamp. The reed quality in the harvesting areas within the Tembe Elephant Park has deteriorated over time, with the reeds in the harvested areas being by and large shorter and thinner than the reeds in the other areas of the reserve where harvesting is not allowed. The impact of continuous harvesting in combination with the accidental burning of certain areas in the Muzi Swamp was also found to be detrimental to reed production when compared to other treatments. Poor rural communities neighbouring the Tembe Elephant Park are dependant on the reed resource for both income supplementation and for use in the construction of dwellings. Reeds offer a cheaper alternative to the more western building materials, which is of utmost importance in an area where the mean yearly income is around ZAR 6000 per annum. The manufacture of prefabricated reed and forest timber huts by the local reed harvesters in the summer months would facilitate a winter only harvest, which is more beneficial and is integral to the improvement of the long-term reed quality in the Muzi Swamp. In addition, the cost of these proposed prefabricated reed and forest timber huts is approximately one third of the cost of a similar sized hut that is constructed from bricks and cement. Management recommendations for the controlled harvesting area in Muzi Swamp of the Tembe Elephant Park, as well as the section of the Muzi Swamp that is not afforded protection by Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, are also presented. / Dissertation (MSc (Wildlife Management))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Centre for Wildlife Management / unrestricted

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T17:57:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Geovani_confrontado.pdf: 11502780 bytes, checksum: 5d0ce88d9f0d752b9854a355ea8bb142 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-15 / The alkali-aggregate reaction affects the durability and the mechanical resistance of the concrete structures, provoking cracks in the structural elements. Despite of these pathological manifestations, it cannot affirm that, even so the reaction is slow, the ultimate limit state cannot be reached. The occurrence of this phenomenon on blocks foundation is rarely described in literature. Recently was identified in foundations of buildings in the Metropolitan of Recife Region, constituting a problem that comes calling the attention of the community technique and the productive sector of civil construction. The pile caps affected by the AAR must suffer interventions with adequate techniques of recovery to each situation. Inside of that focus, this work presents the results of the attendance of the services of microcement injection in cracks in the blocks of a building in recovery process. It still presents the reinforcement proposal for the pieces of infrastructure affected by expansible reaction. To go accomplished extractions of specimens, cleaning and superficial closing of the cracks with an epoxy mixture and kaolin, application of the microcement inside the cracks and extraction of specimens after the injection for verification of the effectiveness of the fulfillment of the cracks with the injected material. The results can supply important subsidies for repair pile caps damaged for the action of AAR / A reação álcali-agregado afeta a durabilidade e a resistência mecânica das estruturas de concreto, provocando trincas nos elementos estruturais. Apesar das manifestações patológicas provocadas, não se pode afirmar que, embora a reação seja lenta, o estado limite de ruptura não possa ser atingido. A ocorrência desse fenômeno em blocos de fundação é raramente descrita na literatura. Recentemente foi identificada em fundações de edifícios na Região Metropolitana do Recife, constituindo um problema que vem chamando a atenção da comunidade técnica e do setor produtivo da construção civil. Os blocos de coroamento afetados pela RAA devem sofrer intervenções com técnicas de recuperação adequadas a cada situação. Dentro desse enfoque, este trabalho apresenta os resultados do acompanhamento dos serviços de injeção de microcimento em fissuras nos blocos de uma obra em processo de recuperação. Apresenta ainda a proposta de reforço para as peças de infra-estrutura afetadas pela reação expansiva. Foram realizadas extrações de testemunhos, limpeza e fechamento superficial das fissuras com uma mistura de epóxi e caulim, aplicação do microcimento no interior das trincas e extração de testemunhos após a injeção para verificação da efetividade do preenchimento das fissuras com o material injetado. Os resultados poderão fornecer importantes subsídios para reparo de blocos de coroamento danificados pela ação da RAA.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T17:57:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fuad Zarzar_dissert.pdf: 2776007 bytes, checksum: aabaf5bf493a96131a98e3b91918ee12 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-16 / This Work, based on parts of the ISO 15686, presents and discuss about a deterministic method, Factor Method (FM), that permits to predict material service life and their components and planning their maintenance and replacement necessary periodicity. The precision of the estimates of this method was analyzed in this Work, and an alternative equation to evaluate service life was developed, using multiple linear regression (MLR), derived from FM pertaining to ISO 15686-1 and especially the Factor Method. The MLR is broadly used to evaluate products that interact with independents variables. Finally, this alternative equation was used to compare its estimate random results with the FM random ones. After evaluating the examples on chapter 4, the Author noticed that the Factor Method is very important to estimate service life of materials and components and the alternative equation too. Two case studies were done in this Work, in the first case the total service life of three collapsed structures were estimated. First a concrete structure similar to a building that was located in the Metropolitan Area of Recife (Brazil) and then the total service life of an balcony from a building located at the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) using both the Factor Method and the alternative equation, and finally the total service life of the basement and superstructure of specific buildings called box from the Metropolitan Region of Recife using the Delphi Method together with the Factor Method was realized too. In the second case, the service life estimation of a softwood window was done using the FM and the alternative equation, other estimations of service life were done the same way by using the alternative equation and the FM. Despite the equations presented in this Work have been developed specifically to estimate service life of materials and components, the estimates showed that the precision of the total service life of the first case approximated to the real case studies, proving the potentiality of the methods / Este Trabalho, baseado nas determinações da norma ISO 15686, apresenta e discute um método determinístico, o Método dos Fatores (MF), que permite estimar a vida útil de materiais e componentes e planejar a periodicidade necessária de manutenção e substituição dos referidos materiais e componentes. A precisão das estimativas desse método foi analisada, neste Trabalho. Uma Equação Alternativa para estimar a vida útil, também, foi desenvolvida, usando regressão linear múltipla (RLM), derivada do MF pertencente a ISO 15686-1. A RLM é, largamente, usada para avaliar ou estimar produtos que interajam com variáveis independentes. Finalmente, a supra mencionada Equação Alternativa foi utilizada para comparar os resultados aleatórios de suas estimativas com os resultados aleatórios das estimativas do MF. Analisando os exemplos do Capítulo 4, constatou-se que o Método dos Fatores é muito importante para estimar a vida útil de materiais e componentes, e a Equação Alternativa, também. Foram efetuados dois estudos de casos diferentes. No primeiro caso as vidas úteis totais de três estruturas de concreto que colapsaram foram estimadas. Primeiro a vida útil total de um edifício similar ao que colapsou na Região Metropolitana do Recife (PE), depois a vida útil total da varanda de um prédio, construído na Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (RJ) usando o MF e a Equação Alternativa. Finalmente, foi feita, também a estimativa da vida útil total do embasamento e superestrutura de prédios do tipo caixão (exemplo nº4), que colapsaram na Região Metropolitana do Recife, usando o Método Delphi em conjunto com o Método dos Fatores. No segundo caso, foram feitas as estimativas das vidas úteis de uma janela de madeira mole, usando ambos o MF e a Equação Alternativa. As demais estimativas de vida útil das outras estruturas de concreto foram conseguidas da mesma forma. As estimativas de vida útil total do primeiro caso se aproximaram dos casos reais estudados, apesar de as equações apresentadas neste Trabalho terem sido desenvolvidas, exclusivamente, para estimar a vida útil de materiais e componentes, provando, assim, a potencialidade das estimativas.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T17:57:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_eduardo_alves.pdf: 4097097 bytes, checksum: 9ad4af0b76785acb1b7ae5b0edeb08db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-01 / The first engineering works reported as being affected by Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR) were pavements and bridges in the state of California - USA, in the 1920's. This diagnosis was proposed by Stanton, T.E., in 1940. From then on, many studies had been presented, supporting that hypothesis. From 1940 to nowadays many other countries, including Brazil had been diagnosing hundreds of cases of AAR in many different types of engineering works, mainly in dams. In Recife, Pernambuco, from the year 2000, many occurrences have been identified as AAR in pile caps. Initially they were observed in the basis of industrial cooling towers and in the pile caps of the Pina Bridge. In 2004, occurred in the neighbor city of Jaboatao the rupture of the Areia Branca Building, a 12 storey, 27 yearold, concrete construction, caused by constructive imperfections in the foundation of the columns. Many people that live in buildings worried much about this fact and asked technical inspections in the foundations. About 30 buildings presented various cracks and the cause is attributed to AAR. Because of the absence of registration of similar cases in the international literature and because the theoretical modelling of the problem is not yet satisfactorily solved, the structural engineers have been presenting intuitive solutions. In this paper four examples of solutions for structural repair of pile caps are showed, using in all of them common procedures, like: cleaning and fulfilling the cracks, addition of steel bars and covering the pile caps with a concrete layer in all surfaces. At the end it is talked about the need to increase the pile caps structural analysis, to verify if the AAR is the only responsible for the fissures in the pile caps, or if there are other associated pathologies / As primeiras obras de engenharia que se tem notícia que foram afetadas pela Reação Álcali-Agregado foram pontes e pavimentos no estado da Califórnia, EUA, nos anos de 1920 a 1930. Este diagnóstico foi proposto por Stanton, T.E., em 1940. A partir daí, vários estudos foram apresentados, dando suporte a essa hipótese. De 1940 até 2008 vários outros países, inclusive o Brasil, diagnosticaram casos de RAA em diversas obras de Engenharia, principalmente em barragens. No Recife, Pernambuco, a partir do ano 2000, várias ocorrências foram diagnosticadas como RAA em blocos de fundação. Inicialmente foram observadas em bases de torres de refrigeração de uma indústria e, posteriormente, nos blocos de fundação da Ponte do Pina. No ano de 2004, houve a ruptura do Edifício Areia Branca, de 12 andares, com 27 anos de idade, na vizinha cidade de Jaboatão, por problemas de falha construtivas nas fundações. Este fato trouxe grande preocupação aos moradores de vários edifícios da região, que passaram a solicitar vistorias técnicas nas fundações dos mesmos. Em cerca de 30 prédios, onde foram observados blocos fissurados, as causas foram atribuídas à RAA. Tendo em vista a falta de registro de casos semelhantes na literatura técnica internacional e que a modelagem teórica do problema ainda não está resolvida satisfatoriamente, tem-se contado com soluções intuitivas dos engenheiros estruturais. Neste trabalho mostram-se quatro exemplos de obras no Recife afetadas pela RAA, detalhando as fases de detecção, diagnóstico, estudos e pesquisas, que resultaram no projeto de soluções para recuperação estrutural dos blocos de fundação, contando com procedimentos que constam, de forma geral, de limpeza e preenchimento das trincas, reforço com armadura suplementar e encamisamento dos blocos. Ao final, chama-se a atenção para a necessidade de evoluir nas análises estruturais dos blocos de fundação, para comprovar se a ação da RAA é a única responsável pelo quadro fissuratório observado nas fundações pesquisadas na Região Metropolitana do Recife, ou se há, porventura, outras patologias associadas

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T17:57:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao_monica_maria_pereira.pdf: 3317223 bytes, checksum: ef120e87a9e5878b6d147ef2048b2da6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-19 / A preocupação em preservar os recursos naturais, em reduzir os desperdícios nos canteiros de obras e minimizar custtos na construção civil tem despertado iinteresse de vários pesquisadores para uma ampla discussão sobre o controle do uso adequado das matérias-primas para geração dos materiais empregados na produção dos edifícios, bem como, dos resíduos gerados pelos elevados índices de perdas nas construções. Melhorar a produtividade e a qualidade é um fator de suma importânciia para a sobrevivência das empresas ligadas ao ramo da construção civil no atual ambientte competitivo. O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar as perdas envolvidas na produção dos blocos cerâmicos e de seu uso nas várias etapas do processo construtivo de obras em Recife,, visando apontar possibilidades de minimização do problema. Para atingir o objjetivo, foram selecionadas duas iindústtriias cerâmicas e três empresas construtoras para comporem o estudo de caso. Os dados foram coletados através de uma planilha e de um Check List durante as visitas realizadas junto às indústrias e empresas construtoras. As etapas analisadas nas indústrias dizem respeito à queima e expedição. Em relação às construtoras foram analisadas as etapas de recebimento, armazenamento, transporte e aplicação. Através da pesquisa verificou-se que as indústrias cerâmicas ainda possuem forte componente cultural, onde a mão-de-obra empregada uttiliza conhecimentos compartilhados a partir das experiências individuais, possuem tímidas iniciativas para a melhoria do processo produtivo, bem como das condições de trabalho e capacitação da sua mão-de-obra,, utilizando, ainda, práticas rudimentares na fabricação de produtos cerâmicos. Neste contexto, através do método de estudo de caso, para as obras pesquisadas, verificou-se que dependendo do nível de gerenciamento e planejamento e dos investimentos tecnológicos, há uma tendência de redução das perdas de materiais. Todavia, não se pode afirmar que uma obra certificada terá, necessariamente, redução de erros e desperdícios, uma vez que o objetivo primeiro é padroniizar requisitos técnicos em seus empreendimentos de modo a aumentar a satisfação do cliente

This business plan for expanding a home improvement company emphasizes: attracting more customers to increase sales; establishing new companies such as contractors, distributors, and wholesalers; and leading the market for home improvement goods and construction materials in Lampung.

An analytical model for lateral deflection in cold-formed steel shear walls sheathed with steel is developed in this research. The model is based on the four factors: fastener displacement, steel sheet deformation, and hold-down deformation, which are from the effective strip concept and a complexity factor, which accounts for the additional influential factors not considered in the previous three terms. The model uses design equations based on the actual material and mechanical properties of the shear wall. Furthermore, the model accounts for aggressive and conservative designers by predicting deflection at different shear strength degrees.

This thesis presents a comparison of building materials for vertical bearing structures of buildings, thermal insulation materials and mutual combination of structural materials and insulators. Furthermore, there are possibilities for solving the most common insulation thermal bridges construction. The paper evaluated the pros and cons of different combinations of building materials. Teplo and Area programs were used for the calculations.