Calidad de las cales nacionales para construcción

Abstract

This paper is a first attempt to estimate the quality of limes for construction produced in the Argentine Country. Samples of differents brands and of hydraulic and aerial Iypes had been taken during a period of one year. Tests established in the Specification IRAM1 had been performed on the samples. The results of the hydrated hydraulic limes, show a great variety of valúes, although the number of samples is not fitly alloted; it is much reduced in some brands. Few are the brands that satisfy completely the requirements of the IRAM’S Specification. Whereas the aerial hydrated limes, an IRAM as a tentative specification, were taken as a pattern. In general, more favourable results are observed in relation to the foresaid tentative in the measured characteristics. Moreover, in order of gathering suitable background for the compi- Iement of specifications, some tests of mixtures of aerial limes with portland cement and of masonry mixtures, had been included.