This work has as objective to reformulate a typical roofing tile body produced at Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil, varying the amount of sand. The raw materials, clayey body and sand, were initially submitted to mineralogical, chemical and physical characterization tests. Specimens were prepared by extrusion to fire at 850, 950 and 1050 ºC. The evaluated properties were: plasticity, water absorption, firing linear shrinkage and flexural rupture strength. The results indicated that the evaluated properties improved with the use of sand.
clay; sand; red ceramic; roofing tiles
