Orientador: Cesar Fabiano Fioriti / Resumo: O crescimento da população e do seu poder aquisitivo mudaram a geração de resíduos. Atualmente se produz resíduos diferentes em qualidade e volume diferentes daqueles produzidos por gerações passadas. Entre os resíduos gerados atualmente se encontram os resíduos de PET, oriundos de embalagens descartáveis, que acarretam problemas ambientais devido ao descarte incorreto. Este trabalho se propõe em estudar a aplicação destes resíduos para a produção de pavers de concreto, observando suas características de desempenho em relação aos pavers produzidos com concreto convencional, ambos produzidos por procedimentos manuais. Para atingir o objetivo proposto foram realizados ensaios de trabalhabilidade, ensaios de massa específica em estado fresco e endurecido, ensaios de absorção de água, medição da incorporação de ar, ensaios de resistência à compressão, tração e impacto e microscopia eletrônica de varredura para os traços produzidos com 5%, 10%, 15% e 20% de substituição em volume dos agregados miúdos e graúdos. Dessa maneira, foi possível buscar informações a respeito do comportamento obtido por meio da substituição parcial dos agregados pelos resíduos de PET produzindo peças com características semelhantes àquelas proporcionadas pelos pavers convencionais, atingindo a resistência à compressão de 35 MPa, definida em norma, em 4 traços produzidos, mesmo com valores de absorção superiores aos 6% estipulados em norma. / Abstract: Population growth and purchasing power changed waste generation. Currently the wastes produced differs in quality and volume than that produced by past generations. Amongst the waste currently produced are the PET waste, originating from disposable packaging, which generate environmental problems due to incorrect disposal. The purpose of this work is to study the application of these residues in concrete pavers production, observing the performance characteristics in comparison to those produced with conventional concrete, both produced by manual procedures. To achieve the proposed goal were performed workability tests, specific weight in both fresh and hardened conditions, water absorption tests, air content tests, compressive strength, splitting tensile strength and impact tests and scanning electron microscopy for the concrete designs containing 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% by volume of both fine and coarse aggregate. Thus, it was possible to achieve information about the concrete behavior produced with partial substitution of the aggregates by the PET waste, producing pavers with similar characteristics of those provided by pavers produced with conventional concrete, achieving the compressive strength of 35 MPa, required by standard, in 4 mixtures with substitution, although the absorption values were above the 6% required by standard. / Mestre

FundaÃÃo Cearense de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Cientifico e TecnolÃgico / A necessidade constante de serviÃos de manutenÃÃo e restauraÃÃo nas vias urbanas, agravadas pela falta de recursos disponÃveis para tal fim à o que motiva a implantaÃÃo dos sistemas de gerÃncia aplicada à pavimentaÃÃo urbana. Estes sistemas sÃo capazes de alocar os recursos dos orÃamentos de manutenÃÃo de infra-estruturas de estradas, aos trechos mais necessitados, onde a sua utilizaÃÃo serà otimizada, priorizando-se os investimentos em funÃÃo do estado de conservaÃÃo da via e da importÃncia da mesma. Neste contexto, esta dissertaÃÃo propÃe a anÃlise dos defeitos existentes nos pavimentos urbanos atravÃs do uso da metodologia Paver (Pavement Maintenance Management System), desenvolvida pelo U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), baseada no cÃlculo do Ãndice de CondiÃÃo do Pavimento (PCI) que utiliza o tipo de defeito encontrado no pavimento e a sua severidade correspondente para calcular o seu valor. O estudo faz adaptaÃÃes à metodologia em questÃo para permitir a anÃlise de calÃamentos de paralelepÃpedos, bastante utilizados na cidade de Fortaleza, levantando os defeitos existentes nestes e avaliando a situaÃÃo dos mesmos pela Ãrea superficial dos danos existentes, uma vez que este tipo de revestimento nÃo à abordado pela metodologia Paver. Para testar a eficÃcia desta forma de anÃlise dos pavimentos urbanos, foi realizado um estudo de caso, em um trecho da malha viÃria urbana de Fortaleza, com 604m de extensÃo, que apresenta um trecho asfaltado e outro calÃado com paralelepÃpedos. Os resultados demonstraram a facilidade de aplicaÃÃo da metodologia e da adaptaÃÃo desenvolvida, propiciando a viabilidade de sua implantaÃÃo na malha viÃria urbana das grandes cidades em um Sistema de GerÃncia de Pavimentos (SGP). AtravÃs dos critÃrios de priorizaÃÃo, expostos no Paver, pode-se fornecer uma lista de prioridades de intervenÃÃo nos segmentos de uma malha viÃria, que necessitam de intervenÃÃo, reduzindo deste modo o desperdÃcio dos recursos pÃblicos e permitindo o controle destes nas obras de restauraÃÃo e manutenÃÃo das vias. / The necessity of constant maintenance and restoration services of the urban ways, aggravated by the lack of proper and sufficient resources, is the main motive for the application of management systems on urban pavements. These systems make it possible to allocate resources of the road infrastructure maintenance budget to the areas where they are most needed. By doing this, it becomes possible to optimize investments using them according to certain criteria, which will take into consideration the waysâ conservation status and also their importance. Within this context, this dissertation proposes an analysis of the existing distresses on urban pavements through the use of the PAVER methodology (Pavement Maintenance Management System), which was developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Such methodology is based on the Pavement Condition Index (PCI), which takes into consideration the type of distress found and its severity level to calculate its value. In order to permit an analysis of ways with paving stone surfaces, which is frequently seen in Fortaleza, there have been some adaptations on the studied methodology by listing the existing distresses and evaluating their situation for the existing damagesâ superficial area, once that this type of way is not approached by the PAVER methodology. In order to test the efficiency of this way of analyzing urban pavements, a case-study has been conducted in a small portion, 604 meters long, of Fortalezaâs road network which is composed by two different paving surfaces; asphalt and paving stone. The results show the applicability of this methodology and the adaptation that has been developed, making it possible its implementation in big citiesâ road networks in a Pavement Management System (PMS). Through the criteria of priorities, postulated by PAVER, one can provide a list of priorities of intervention in road network segments, the ones that really need intervention, as to reduce the waste of public resources and allow a better spending control of these resources when restoration and maintenance services are being carried out in road networks.

Submitted by Haroudo Xavier Filho (haroudo.xavierfo@ufpe.br) on 2016-04-15T18:58:56Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação-FINAL-ALCANTARA-(2015).pdf: 5450939 bytes, checksum: 48870216bb757bd8e071283661594dc0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T18:58:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação-FINAL-ALCANTARA-(2015).pdf: 5450939 bytes, checksum: 48870216bb757bd8e071283661594dc0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / CAPES / Peças de concreto intertravadas para pavimentação (pavers) coloridas com pigmento de óxido de ferro (vermelho) são utilizadas em projetos de urbanização. Entretanto, esse tipo de pigmento, além de encarecer de 20 a 30% o valor das peças, prejudica as propriedades dos concretos secos moldados sob vibrocompressão. Diante disso, propõe-se incorporar resíduo de cerâmica vermelha (RCV) como matiz colorimétrica em prol da redução de pigmento em pavers coloridos, tendo em vista também a possibilidade de melhoria de suas propriedades por efeitos filler e pozolânico. A fim de investigar o efeito do pigmento e do RCV no compósito estudado, as formulações foram: (a) traço padrão pelo método de dosagem da ABCP para blocos e pavers; (b) adição de pigmento ao traço padrão (2% e 4%); (c) substituição da areia média pelo RCV no traço padrão (50%, 75% e 100%); (d) adição de RCV ao traço padrão (20%, 30%, 40% e 50%); (e) adição de pigmento (2%) e RCV concomitantemente ao traço padrão (20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 100% e 150%). Para todos os traços (exceto aqueles das formulações de substituição), foi feita a correção do consumo de cimento em relação ao traço padrão. Resistência à compressão, absorção de água e resistência à abrasão foram avaliadas de acordo com a norma NBR 9781:2013; além disso, foi realizada uma avaliação das cores dos compósitos desenvolvidos por inspeção visual. Pastas de cimento vibroprensadas com baixa relação água-cimento (padrão, 3% pigmento, 15% RCV e 3% pigmento – 15% RCV) também foram moldadas para avaliações de cunho microestrutural, cristalográfico e de análise térmica das reações de hidratação dos sistemas. O traço padrão foi 1:2,29:1,76:0,95 (cimento:areia média:areia muita grossa:pedrisco) com relação água-materiais secos 0,80. De uma maneira geral, adições de apenas pigmento (2% e 4%) reduziram em até 73% a resistência à compressão do paver padrão cinza (sem adições). Redução nos produtos de hidratação (CH e C-S-H) foram observadas. As substituições de areia média pelo RCV também foram prejudiciais a esse sistema. Já as adições de apenas RCV, bem como as de RCV concomitantemente com pigmento foram positivas em ganhos ou manutenção de propriedades (resistência à compressão, absorção de água, resistência à abrasão e cor) em relação ao paver padrão colorido (4% de pigmento), destacando-se a formulação 2% de pigmento e 50% de RCV. Assim, a adição de RCV é uma possibilidade técnica promissora, sustentável e economicamente viável na fabricação de pavers avermelhados. / Concrete interlocking blocks colored with pigment iron oxide (red) are used in urbanization projects. However, that kind of pigment increases around 20 to 30% the value of the pavers, as well as affect the properties of the dry concrete molded by vibrocompression. Therefore, it is proposed to incorporate red ceramic waste (RCW) as colorimetric hue in order of pigment content reduction in colored pavers, considering also the possibility of improving their properties by filler and pozzolanic effect. In order to investigate the effect of pigment and RCW in the studied composite, the formulations were: (a) reference paver designed by ABCP method for blocks and pavers; (B) adding pigment to the reference paver (2% and 4%); (C) substitution of medium sand by RCW in the reference paver (50%, 75% and 100%); (D) adding RCW in the reference paver (20%, 30%, 40% and 50%); (E) addition of pigment (2%) and RCW concurrently in the reference paver (20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 100% and 150%). For all mixtures (except those of replacement formulations), it was made the correction in cement consumption related to the reference mix proportion. Compressive strength, water absorption and abrasion resistance were measured according to the ABNT NBR 9781: 2013 standards; besides that, the color and texture of all manufactured formulations were observed by visual inspection. Cement pastes made by vibrocompression with low water-cement ratio (reference paste, 3% pigment, 15% RCW and 3% pigment RCW - 15% RCW) were also molded for microstructural, crystallographic and thermal analysis of systems hydration reactions. The reference mix proportion was 1:2.29:1.76:0.95 (cement: medium sand: thick sand: gravel) with ratio water-dry material 0.80. In general, additions of only pigment (2% and 4%) up to 73% reduced the compressive strength of the reference paver (no additions). Reduction in hydration products (C-S-H and CH) was observed. The substitution formulations of medium sand by RCW were also harmful to the systems. Additions of only RCW and RCW concomitantly with pigment were positive in gains or maintaining of properties (compressive strength, water absorption resistance and abrasion resistance) compared to the reference colored paver (4% pigment), especially the formulation of 2% pigment and 50% RCW. Thus, the addition of RCW is a promising, economic and sustainable technique in the production of red pavers.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:07:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 OsvaldoCS_TESE.pdf: 5419870 bytes, checksum: 262730b1c0403826588e3ca7137507e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The production of waste from urban and industrial activities is one of the factors of environmental contamination and has aroused attention of the scientific community, in the sense of its reuse. On the other hand, the city of Salvador/Ba, with approximately 262 channels, responsible for storm water runoff, produces every year, by the intervention of cleaning and clearing channels, a significant volume of sediments (dredged mud), and thus an appropriate methodology for their final destination. This study aims to assess the influence of incorporation of these tailings in arrays of clay for production of interlocked block ceramic, also known as ceramic paver. All the raw materials from the metropolitan region of Salvador (RMS) were characterized by x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, thermal analysis (TG and TDA), particle size analysis and dilatometry. With the use of statistical experimental planning technique, ternary diagram was defined in the study region and the analyzed formulations. The specimens were prepared with dimensions of 60x20x5mm?, by uniaxial pressing of 30 MPa and after sintering at temperatures of 900?, 1000? and 1100?C the technological properties were evaluated: linear shrinkage, water absorption, apparent porosity, apparent specifies mass, flexural rupture and module. For the uniaxial compression strength used cylindrical probe body with ? 50 mm. The standard mass (MP) was prepared with 90% by weight of clay and 10% by weight of Channel sediment (SCP), not being verified significant variations in the properties of the final product. With the incorporation of 10% by weight of manganese residue (PFM) and 10% by weight of the Ceramic waste (RCB) in the mass default, in addition to adjusting the plasticity due to less waste clay content, provided increased linear firing shrinkage, due the significant concentration of K2O, forming liquid phase at low temperature, contributing to decreased porosity and mechanical resistance, being 92,5 MPa maximum compressive strength verified. After extract test leachate and soluble, the piece containing 10% of the PFM, was classified as non-hazardous and inert material according to NBR10004/04 ABNT. The results showed the feasibility on using waste, SCP, RCB and PFM clay mass, at temperatures above 900?C, paver ceramic production, according to the specifications of the technical standards, so that to exceed the 10% of the PFM, it becomes imperative to conduct studies of environmental impacts / A produ??o de res?duos provenientes das atividades urbanas e industriais ? um dos fatores de contamina??o ambiental e tem despertado aten??o da comunidade cientifica, no sentido do seu reaproveitamento. Por outro lado, a cidade do Salvador/Ba, com aproximadamente 262 canais, respons?veis pelo escoamento de ?guas pluviais, produz todo ano, pela necessidade de interven??o de limpeza e desobstru??o de canais, um volume significativo de sedimentos (lama dragada), impondo dessa forma uma metodologia adequada para sua destina??o final. Este trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar a influ?ncia da incorpora??o desses rejeitos em matrizes de argila para produ??o de bloco intertravado cer?mico, tamb?m conhecido como paver cer?mico. Todas as mat?rias primas oriundas da Regi?o Metropolitana de Salvador (RMS) foram caracterizadas por fluoresc?ncia de raios -X, difra??o de raios -X, analise t?rmica (TG e TDA), analise granulom?trica e dilatometria. Com a utiliza??o da t?cnica estat?stica de planejamento experimental, foi definida em diagrama tern?rio a regi?o de estudo e as formula??es analisadas. Foram preparados os corpos de prova com dimens?es de 60x20x5mm3, por prensagem uniaxial de 30 MPa e, ap?s sinteriza??o nas temperaturas de 900?, 1000? e 1100?C, as propriedades tecnol?gicas avaliadas foram: retra??o linear, absor??o de ?gua, porosidade aparente, massa especifica aparente, m?dulo de ruptura ? flex?o. Para a resist?ncia ? compress?o uniaxial utilizou-se o corpo de prova cil?ndrico com ? de 50mm. A massa padr?o (MP) foi preparada com 90% em peso de argila e 10% em peso do sedimento de canais (SCP), n?o sendo verificadas varia??es significativas nas propriedades do produto final. Com a incorpora??o de 10% em peso do res?duo de mangan?s (PFM) e 10% em peso do rejeito cer?mico (RCB) na massa padr?o, al?m do ajuste da plasticidade, em fun??o de menor teor de argilominerais dos res?duos, proporcionou aumento da retra??o linear de queima, devido a significativa concentra??o de K2O, formando fase liquida em baixa temperatura, contribuindo para diminui??o da porosidade e aumento da resist?ncia mec?nica, sendo 92,5 MPa a m?xima resist?ncia ? compress?o verificada. Ap?s teste do extrato lixiviado e solubilizado, a pe?a contendo 10% do PFM, foi classificada como material n?o perigoso e inerte segundo NBR10004/04 da ABNT. Os resultados mostraram viabilidade na utiliza??o dos res?duos SCP, RCB e PFM em massa argilosa, em temperaturas acima de 900?C, para produ??o de bloco intertravado, paver cer?mico, de acordo com as especifica??es das normas t?cnicas, de forma que, para teores superiores a 10% do PFM, torna-se imperativo a realiza??o de estudos de impactos ambientais

While the design and the technology behind the vehicles we drive has gone a long way, the main principle in which we construct our roads today, the materials and the machinery we use to do it has hardly changed for the last 40 years.This project takes  a fresh look at an industry that has remained stagnant for several decades. Looking into a future in which large Mega-Cities will develop, the aim of this project will be to develop a new solution for constructing and maintaining the transport arteries in those cities. This project was performed in collaboration with Dynapac, a leading manufacturer of road construction equipment, with supporting feedback from NCC roads, the Scandinavian road construction group.

Wearable and mobile devices are an important part of our daily life. Most of those devices are powered by batteries. The limited life span of batteries constitutes a limitation, especially in a multiple-day expedition, where electrical power can not access conveniently. At the same time, there is a huge amount of energy stored in the human body. While walking, there is a large amount of power dissipated in the human body as negative muscle work and the energy loss by impact. By sourcing locally and using locally, human body energy harvesting is a promising solution. This dissertation focuses on harvesting energy from the human body to power wearable and mobile devices while poses a minimum burden on the human body. Three topics related to the human body energy harvesting are explored, i.e, energy harvesting backpack, negative muscle work harvester, and energy harvesting tile/paver. The energy harvesting backpack was invented in 2006. Extensive work was done to improve the performance of backpack energy harvester. The backpack is modeled as a spring-mass-damper system. Mechanical Motion Rectifier was added to the spring-mass-damper system to increase the frequency bandwidth. A spring is added to the spring-mass-damper system, between the harvester and the backpack mass, and a inerter-based 2DOF (degree-of-freedom) backpack is created. The inerter-based 2DOF backpack improves the power output, frequency bandwidth, and power stroke ratio performance. MMR was added to the inerter-based 2DOF backpack to reduce the peak stroke. Compared with the conventional spring-mass-damper backpack, the MMR and inerter-based 2DOF backpack can harvest more power with large bandwidth at a small sacrifice of stroke. The electric damping was also tuned to increase the power output and bandwidth for the energy harvesting backpack. The negative work harvester mounts on the human ankle and harvests energy in the terminal stance phase in human walking, when the calf muscle is doing negative muscle work. This harvester is an analogy to regenerative brake in vehicles. The energy harvesting paver/tile harvests energy when the heel contacts with ground and energy are dissipated by impact. / Doctor of Philosophy / Wearable and mobile devices are an important part of our daily life. Most of those devices are powered by batteries. The limited life span of batteries constitutes a limitation, especially in a multiple-day expedition, where electrical power can not access conveniently. At the same time, there is a huge amount of energy stored in the human body. While walking, there is a large amount of power dissipated in the human body as negative muscle work and the energy loss by impact. By sourcing locally and using locally, human body energy harvesting is a promising solution. This dissertation focuses on harvesting energy from the human body to power wearable and mobile devices while poses a minimum burden on the human body. Three topics related to the human body energy harvesting are explored, i.e, energy harvesting backpack, negative muscle work harvester, and energy harvesting tile/paver. The energy harvesting backpack was invented in 2006. Extensive work was done to improve the performance of backpack energy harvester. The backpack is modeled as a spring-mass-damper system. Extensive work have been done to make the energy harvesting backpack broad frequency bandwidth. The negative work harvester mounts on the human ankle and harvests energy in the terminal stance phase in human walking. This harvester is an analogy to regenerative brake in vehicles. The energy harvesting paver/tile harvests energy when the heel contacts with ground and energy are dissipated by impact.

Collecting load tickets is an example of an antiquated practice that puts inspectors in harm’s way either adjacent to traffic, in close proximity to moving or backing equipment, or at times requires climbing onto trucks to reach tickets. Technology exists to collect this information electronically allowing for safer, efficient inspection methods. Departments of Transportation are charged with inspecting an increasing work load with a diminishing number of inspection staff. Recently, doing more with less has led to the prioritization of inspection activities and resulted in less collection of data and visual inspection on projects. Technology advancements are available to improve data collection and provide for more efficient inspection. Using GPS and GIS technology tied into electronic scale report-out systems, a fleet tracking system traces haul routes, reports travel time and tonnage, and even assists contractors with equipment matching and balancing. Data from this system coupled with other technologies remote monitoring of temperature, intelligent compaction, and network enabled cameras provide an opportunity to enhance inspection and increase construction inspection productivity all the while enriching detail of project records. The contribution of this paper is to provide a framework in which to combine these technologies into a multi-faceted, enhanced inspection approach.

Over recent years, organizations such as the Federal Highway Administration and Departments of Transportation across the United States have showed interest in automating highway construction processes. The addition of e-Construction and other advanced technologies can significantly improve the efficiency and safety of highway paving operations, specifically paving inspections. Activities such as collecting load tickets, tracking pavement lay-down temperatures, and monitoring roller movement are antiquated practices that DOT inspectors perform during paving operations. E-Ticketing, Paver Mounted Thermal Profiling, and Intelligent Compaction were proposed to automate paving inspections and were recently tested in two resurfacing pilot projects in the state of Kentucky. Findings from the projects indicate that the three technologies display great potential in improving safety and efficiency of paving inspections. The contribution of this thesis is to document the research effort, evaluate the effectiveness of the technologies compared to the traditional practices, and discuss the lessons learned for industry practitioners.

Now-a-days, the major challenge that’s being faced by the concrete industry is the cleaning of concrete handling equipment. Concrete consists of aggregates, which harden with time, and the transportation of concrete mixture within the plant is a significant problem. This will not only increase the overall maintenance cost, but will lead to loss of raw materials, affect the rate of production, and reduce the lifetime of concrete handling equipment. The present study focuses on the design and implementation of an adaptive cleaning mechanism in the concrete industry and its importance in achieving efficient cleaning, which is tested to verify its performance in the Paver production plant. The goal of this study is to provide practical evidence about the importance of adaptive cleaning mechanisms for industrial applications. The first chapter gives a detailed introduction about pavers and the production process, the cause of material loss that occurs during transportation of wet concrete mixture inside a paver plant, and its effect on handling equipment and work environment. The second chapter explains design and working of the paver machine push bar mechanism, which can be implemented in a hydraulic press production process of pavers. The third chapter includes analysis and results of the mechanism obtained using Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor followed by observations that are achieved based on practical application of this mechanism in a paver production plant.

This study analyses Michelle Paver’s youth book series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness from an intersectional power perspective. Gender and age are the main elements, and with these two power structures comes another layer of the analysis, namely, the postfeminist idea that it is impossible to categorise people as they are too diverse and ambivalent. Several characters, both youths and adults, are examined to see whether gender stereotypes are followed and if they determine what position of power the characters end up with. The study also explores whether the gender structures vary in groups where adults are present versus in groups where they are not. This adds another perspective, which is the element of age and therefore the problem of aetonormativity. The adults are the norm and they are in charge of the youths. However, when the youths meet with the adults, the two power structures, age and gender, clash in the question of whether a young man gets the upper hand over an older woman, or vice versa. In the end, the analysis concludes that even though the book series follows stereotypical gender structures in several ways, it also presents a query as to whether both gender and age categorisations are accessible and valid. Most main characters question their sufficiency and oppression on several levels, both in insecurities and in open discussion, and this result ends up harmonising with a postfeminist thought pattern. For all to be free from the hardships of not being adequate, or not receiving fair treatment from others based on gender or age, these structures must be questioned and perhaps even challenged.