Optimización del proceso de mezcla de arcilla para la producción de ladrillos, en el sector artesanal

Abstract

Currently the brick artisanal sector presents problems in the production process due to ancestral dosage of raw materials involved in their manufacture, with graduation present work, we obtained the optimal mixing ratio of sandy clay and plasticfor the manufacture of bricks in the artisanal sector Cuenca, same that allow the finished product is cheaper and competitive in the industrial construction market. First experimental mixture design was performed by the method of ordinary least squares obtaining mathematical models of the first order that describe the behavior of parameters as the plasticity index, water absorption, shrinkage on drying, burning shrinkage, overall shrinkage depending on the proportions of clay in the formulation entering Brick same through linear programming using the graphical method, provided the optimum mixing, giving a saving $ 130 per ton of raw material Plasticity index was obtained experimentally by applying the ASTM D4318-95 big house and drying shrinkage, contraction to burning, the total contraction and water absorption methods are applied artisan.