Faced with a shortage of stone materials in the Amazon region (deficit detrimental to their employment in civil works such as coarse aggregate), developed scientific-technological research focused on alternative materials, through which verified the feasibility of Aggregate Sintered Calcined Clay - ASAC, to composition of asphalt mixtures for road pavements to Amazon. Moreover, surveys showed plenty of matter in the Amazon for its confection, which allow obtaining a large scale, even in hard to reach places, reasons is indispensable to assess the costs of its production process. It was established methodology for analyzing cost of making red ceramic products, which can be used to produce the ASAC. In June 2012, the preliminary examination found, for ASAC, price 40% higher than the pebble (traditional regional option to aggregate stony), while, on the traditional aggregate, we detected a price far below the usual average, with recovery trend, so that the production of sintered aggregate proved to be advantageous in the medium and long term. Indeed, the further analysis, in which the production process was adapted for production of the artificial aggregate, appointed fact promising: the price final value 24% above the pebble. In the context of production for direct application in civil work, the situation is reversed, since only the direct production costs comprise the cost of ASAC, revealing 34.5% less than the price of alluvial aggregate, this, it is emphasized, below its historical average. Computing the additional transport costs to the pebble, when the construction site is far from the shopping centers, the financial advantage of the ASAC increases significantly, to the point of achieving price 77% lower than the pebble (e.g. for an average distance of 400 km).
synthetic aggregates; production; costs
