نبذة مختصرة : Mestrado de dupla diplomação com o Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca - Cefet/RJ ; Construction sector is one of the largest consumers of natural resources among human activities. Over the last years, with the increasingly interest for sustainable practices, the use of earth as a raw construction material re-emerged as a feasible way to reduce environmental impacts. In this scenario, compressed earth blocks (CEBs) arose as a construction technique with large sustainable potential, once they do not require cooking processes on their manufacture and due to the possibility of incorporation of fibres and wastes. This work aims to evaluate the incorporation of the organic fraction of municipal waste on CEBs, through its thermal properties and behaviour when subjected to fire situations. For such, a preliminary characterization of the CEBs to determine their porosity and bulk density was held. Subsequently, an evaluation of chemical aspects of the CEBs and its components was performed through thermogravimetric analyses. Thermal properties of the blocks were also calculated using transient methods. Finally, a CEBs panel was tested experimentally to evaluate criteria of integrity and insulation, and numerical simulations were held to provide a better understanding towards this phenomenon. The obtained results indicate that the incorporation of organic waste does not affect the capability of CEBs walls to accomplish fire safety criteria. Furthermore, the incorporated CEBs thermal properties still accomplish the minimums required by the standards and may also allow to reduce the heat transfer through building envelopes, which emphasize the sustainable feature of the blocks. ; A construção civil é um dos setores de maior consumo de recursos naturais entre as atividades humanas. Nos últimos anos, com o crescente interesse por práticas sustentáveis, o uso de terra como matéria-prima construtiva ressurgiu como uma maneira viável de reduzir impactos ambientais. Nesse cenário, os blocos de terra ...
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