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Shredded Tires and Rubber-Sand as Lightweight Backfill
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In this article, a triaxial testing program was conducted to investigate the stress-strain relationship and strength of tire chips and a mixture of sand and tire chips, and the test results and additional information from the literature were used in the numerical modeling of wall backfills, both unreinforced and reinforced with geosynthetics.Abstract:
The growing interest in utilizing waste materials in civil engineering applications has opened the possibility of constructing reinforced soil structures with unconventional backfills. Scrap tires are a high-profile waste material for which several uses have been studied, including the use of shredded tires as backfill. A triaxial testing program was conducted to investigate the stress-strain relationship and strength of tire chips and a mixture of sand and tire chips. The test results and additional information from the literature were used in the numerical modeling of wall backfills, both unreinforced and reinforced with geosynthetics. The numerical modeling results suggest tire shreds, particularly when mixed with sand, may be effectively used as backfill.read more
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Behaviour of tire shred - sand mixtures
TL;DR: Tire shreds and tire shreds can be used as alternative backfill material in many geotechnical applications, such as soil mixtures as discussed by the authors, which can not only address growing environmental and ec...
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Recycling waste rubber tyres in construction materials and associated environmental considerations: A review
Abbas Mohajerani,Lucas Burnett,John V. Smith,Stefan Markovski,Glen Rodwell,Tareq Rahman,Halenur Kurmus,Mehdi Mirzababaei,Arul Arulrajah,Suksun Horpibulsuk,Farshid Maghool +10 more
TL;DR: The properties of waste tyre rubber and engineering applications have been previously reported in a range of publications with respect to the environmental, economic, and technical factors as discussed by the authors, with a focus on geotechnical engineering applications, such as earthworks and infrastructure construction.
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Seismic isolation by rubber–soil mixtures for developing countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a promising seismic isolation method particularly suitable for developing countries, which makes use of rubber-soil mixtures to reduce the level of shaking in the horizontal direction.
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Strength and deformation characteristics of shredded rubber tire - sand mixtures
Sompote Youwai,Dennes T. Bergado +1 more
TL;DR: The volume of scrap tires, an undesired urban waste, is increasing every year and one of the possible alternatives for this waste is to use shredded tires alone or mixed with soil as a lightweight bac... as discussed by the authors.
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Dynamic Properties of Granulated Rubber/Sand Mixtures
Zheng-Yi Feng,Kevin G. Sutter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the shear modulus and damping ratio of granulated rubber/sand mixtures using a torsional resonant column and found that 50% granulated tire rubber is close to a typical saturated cohesive soil.
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Engineering properties of tire chips and soil mixtures
T B Edil,P J Bosscher +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the characteristics of shredded scrap tires and their engineering properties and behavior alone or when mixed with soils, including compaction, compressibility, strength and deformability, and hydraulic conductivity.
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Sand Reinforced with Shredded Waste Tires
TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility of using shredded waste tires to reinforce sand was investigated, and three significant factors affecting shear strength were identified: normal stress, shred content, and sand matrix unit weight.
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Design of Highway Embankments Using Tire Chips
TL;DR: In this paper, the use of shredded scrap tires as a lightweight fill material in highway construction is discussed and design parameters for embankments constructed using discarded shredded tires are presented based on laboratory model studies, numerical analyses, and field performance of test fills.
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Engineering properties of tire/soil mixtures as a lightweight fill material
TL;DR: In this paper, the engineering properties of shredded tires, Ottawa sand, and a mixture of 50% Ottawa sand and 50% shredded tires by volume (70%Ottawa sand and 30% shredded tire by weight).