The theoretical part of the thesis deals with the multi-layer polymer flooring systems green products, where main focus is placed on recycled material fillers. The practical part is devoted to reference materials practical testing and also to testing of materials filled by secondary materials silicates with the conclusive tests support. The economic part should point out the advantages of the secondary raw materials use in terms of the final product lower price.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:07:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MarcioCSM_TESE.pdf: 957118 bytes, checksum: 7c10d815ada900ecb0efde8936a6064e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-07-29 / The growing concern with the solid residues management, observed in the last decade, due to its huge amount and impact, has motivated the search for recycling processes, where these residues can be reprocessed to generate new products, enlarging the cycle of materials and energy which are present. Among the polymeric residues, there is poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET). PET is used in food packaging, preferably in the bottling of carbonated beverages. The reintegration of post-consumer PET in half can be considered a productive action mitigation of environmental impacts caused by these wastes and it is done through the preparation of several different products at the origin, i.e. food packaging, with recycling rates increasing to each year. This work focused on the development and characterization mechanical, thermal, thermo-mechanical, dynamic mechanical thermal and morphology of the pure recycled PET and recycled PET composites with glass flakes in the weight fraction of 5%, 10% and 20% processed in a single screw extruder, using the following analytical techniques: thermogravimetry (TG), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), tensile, Izod impact, Rockwell hardness, Vicat softening temperature, melt flow rate, burn rate, dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results of thermal analysis and mechanical properties leading to a positive evaluation, because in the thermograms the addition of glass flakes showed increasing behavior in the initial temperatures of thermal decomposition and melting crystalline, Furthermore was observed growing behavior in the mechanical performance of polymer composites, whose morphological structure was observed by SEM, verifying a good distribution of glass flakes, showing difference orientation in the center and in the surface layer of test body of composites with 10 and 20% of glass flakes. The results of DMTA Tg values of the composites obtained from the peak of tan ? showed little reductions due to poor interfacial adhesion between PET and recycled glass flakes. / A crescente preocupa??o com a gest?o de res?duos s?lidos, observada na ?ltima d?cada, em virtude de sua enorme quantidade e impacto ambiental, tem motivado a busca por processos de reciclagem, onde estes res?duos podem ser reprocessados de modo a gerarem novos produtos, ampliando o ciclo dos materiais e energia neles contidos. Dentre os res?duos polim?ricos, destaca-se o poli(tereftalato de etileno) (PET). O PET ? utilizado em embalagens de alimentos, preferencialmente, no envase de bebidas carbonatadas. A reintegra??o do PET p?s-consumo ao meio produtivo pode ser considerada uma a??o mitigat?ria dos impactos ambientais causados por estes res?duos e j? ? realizada por meio da obten??o de diversos produtos diferentes ao da origem, ou seja, embalagens para alimento, com taxas de reciclagem crescente a cada ano. Este trabalho focou o desenvolvimento e a caracteriza??o mec?nica, t?rmica, termo-mec?nica, termo-din?mico-mec?nica e morfol?gica do PET reciclado processado e dos comp?sitos de PET reciclado com flocos de vidro na fra??o em peso de 5%, 10% e 20% processados em uma extrusora rosca simples, utilizando as seguintes t?cnicas de an?lise: termogravimetria (TG), calorimetria explorat?ria diferencial (DSC), tra??o uniaxial, impacto Izod, dureza Rockwel, temperatura de amolecimento Vicat, ?ndice de fluidez, taxa de queima, an?lise termo-din?mico-mec?nica (DMTA) e microscopia eletr?nica de varredura (MEV). Os resultados das an?lises t?rmicas e das propriedades mec?nicas conduziram a uma avalia??o positiva, pois nos termogramas as adi??es dos flocos de vidro mostraram comportamento crescente nas temperaturas inicial de decomposi??o t?rmica e de fus?o cristalina, al?m disso, observou-se comportamento crescente no desempenho mec?nico dos comp?sitos polim?ricos, cuja estrutura morfol?gica foi observada por MEV, verificando uma boa distribui??o dos flocos de vidro, apresentando diferen?a na orienta??o no centro e na camada superficial do corpo de prova dos comp?sitos com 10 e 20% de flocos de vidro. Nos resultados de DMTA os valores de Tg dos comp?sitos obtidos a partir do pico de tan ?, apresentaram pequenas redu??es, devido a pobre ades?o interfacial entre o PET reciclado e os flocos de vidro.