Abstract:
Many industrial activities generate waste that can be considered polluting or cause environmental damage, enhancing the concern about these materials’ proper disposal. As a result, there is a growing interest in researching the reuse of waste as a by-product of the manufacturing of new materials. Therefore, the objective of this work was to produce artificial stones using colorless tempered glass waste and granite waste as aggregate, agglomerated in an epoxy matrix, as well as to analyze their properties variating some parameters during their manufacturing process of vibration, compression, and vacuum, such as granulometric composition, resin content, and compactions pressure. The developed stones were characterized using 3-point flexural strength tests, determination of apparent density, apparent porosity, and water absorption, in addition to a microstructural analysis. . Based on the analyzed data, among the stones tested, it is noticed that RGV7-H and RGV5-L stones obtained the best properties, with apparent density of 2.12 g/cm³ and 2.14 g/cm³, apparent porosity of 0.48% and 0.28%, water absorption of 0.23% and 0.13% and flexural strength of 36.57 MPa and 32.77 MPa, respectively. In addition, their performance is consistent with studies already carried out in the area, allowing them to be applied as civil construction materials