Evaluation of Technological Properties of Soil-Cement Blocks Using Experimental Design of Mixtures

The soil-cement blocks are an innovative technology that aims at the construction of masonry without the need of coating, adopting the modality of block modules. In addition, they are more sustainable for the fact that they are not burned, where the energy is smaller and less release of gases into the atmosphere. The objective of this work is the ratio of soil types (called A, B and C), extracted from the different fields of the municipality of Campos dos Goytacazes (by simplex methodology), in order to optimize the mixture and obtain the best technological conditions as compression strength and water absorption in blocks of soil-cement. As a result of this work, it was observed that, through the characterization, the soils show potential for the production of soil-cement blocks, besides determining the proportion of 32% of soil A, 37% of soil B and 31% of soil C being optimization of the evaluated properties.