The use of rubber tire particles in concrete to replace mineral aggregates

✍ Scribed by H.A. Toutanji

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 575 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-9465
• DOI: 10.1016/0958-9465(95)00010-0

✦ Synopsis

The effect of the replacement of mineral coarse aggregate by rubber tire aggregate is investigated in this paper

: Four diferent volume contents of rubber tire chips were used: 25, SO, 7.5 and 100%. The incorporation of these rubber tire chips in concrete exhibited a reduction in compressive and fkxural strengths, the reduction in compressive strength was approximately twice the reduction of the flexural strength. The specimens which contained rubber tire aggregate exhibited ductile failure and underwent signi@ant displacement before fracture. The toughness of jkxural specimens was evaluated for plain and rubber tire concrete specimens. The test revealed that high toughness was displayed by specimens containing rubber tire chips as compared to control specimens. Copight 0 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.