The aim of this research was to compare the compressive strength of ground-cement bricks manufactured with the wooded hill of termite Cornitermes cumulans (Kollar, 1832), to bricks that they were used as quartzaremico raw material one NEOSSOLO QUARTZARÊNICO (EMBRAPA, 1999), both submitted to two ages of cure (07 or 28 days). The experiment was performed in entirely randomized delineation, in factorial project 2x2, being analyzed two cofactors: the raw material base and age of cure. The physical and mechanical assays obeyed the lapsing of the norm of the Brazilian Association of Technical Rules NBR-8492 (ABNT, 1982) and NBR-8491 (ABNT, 1984). One concluded that the compressive strength of the bricks was bigger with the increase of the ages of cure. The T4 treatment presented bigger value of compressive strength, not differing statistically from the treatments T2 and T1. The bricks manufactured with the wooded hill of termite C. cumulans (Kollar, 1832) presented reduction of water absorption with the increase of the ages of cure, which normally corresponds to a bigger increase of the compressive strength, on the contrary of the ones that used NEOSSOLO QUARTZARÊNICO (EMBRAPA, 1999).
Ages of cure; physical and mechanical assays; cement-soil
