%0 Journal Article %T Ensaio de crava£¿£¿o pneum¨¢tica de pino para avalia£¿£¿o da resist¨ºncia ¨¤ compress£¿o de juntas de assentamento de alvenaria estrutural %A Oliveira %A Alexandre Lima %A Damiani %A Pedro Lehmkuhl %A Ribeiro %A Igor Fernando Reitz %A Souza %A Rafael Andrade %A Cal£¿ada %A Luciana Maltez Lengler %J Ambiente Constru¨ªdo %D 2012 %I Associa??o Nacional de Tecnologia do Ambiente Constru¨ªdo %R 10.1590/S1678-86212012000200012 %X nondestructive tests have been proposed and used for the evaluation of structural masonry conditions, quality control, and properties of materials in-situ. however, most of nondestructive methods work only with mortars with low compressive strength (< 4,0 mpa) or for qualitative assessment, and are not practical for in-situ use, requiring too much time to perform evaluations. for those reasons, a pneumatic pin penetration test was used to evaluate the penetration depth of a steel probe and correlate it with the compressive strength of mortar in a laboratory. the study has shown a good correlation between the penetration depth of pins and the compressive strength of mortars, besides proving to be a practical test, which is fast and easy to implement in situ. %K nondestructive test %K bed mortar joint %K mortar %K structural masonry. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-86212012000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en