Avaliação de misturas de solos estabilizados com Cal, em pó e em pasta, para aplicação em rodovias do Estado do Ceará

• Ano de defesa: 2009
• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Arielton Fonteles
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Calagem dos solos; Solos - Compactação; Pavimentos; Rodovias
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/1447

The Baixo Jaguaribe’s Agricultural Pole plays an important role in the socio-economic scenario in the State of Ceara. This agriculture pole has been promoting new opportunities for the development of irrigated agriculture and agribusiness; nevertheless, its highway infrastructure is poor. The region’s lack of appropriate soil coupled with limited financial resources make economically unfeasible any effort to improve the road network. Therefore, it is necessary to search for technological alternatives that allow both the reduction of implantation costs and the pavement improvement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the technical viability of using lime to stabilize the soil at the Baixo Jaguaribe´s Agricultural Pole, Ceara, to be used in noble layers of highway. Two samples from the region’s soil were selected for this study in order to investigate the soil stabilization after adding lime. Two methods of administering the stabilizer to the soil were analyzed: in the first one, the lime was diluted in the compacting water (experimental method) and, in the second on, the lime powder was directly administered (control method). Other variables investigated in this study are a) the rate of lime administered (3%, 5%, and 7%), b) the curing time to which the mixtures were administered (0, 7, 14, 28, and 90 days), and c) the compacting energy variation, normal and intermediate, used in some specific tests. The stabilized mixtures were submitted to two dosage methods: one analyzed the samples’ chemical performance through the pH values evolution and the other one analyzed the samples’ mechanic performance through the resistance to simple compression values evolution. The mixtures produced in the laboratory were also submitted to mechanic resistance evaluations through the compression strength test, the diametrical compression test, and the resilience modulus test. It was observed that the chemical stabilization obtained by adding lime (powder or diluted in water) promoted improvement at the analyzed soil samples due to the some of the soil physical and chemical features. Based on these analyses, the best outcome by adding lime to stabilize the soil was observed in one of the investigated soils.