Sustainability of Using Scrap Tire in Civil Engineering Applications


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Topçu İ. B., Ünverdi A.

3. International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering, (ICOCEE – Çeşme 2018), İzmir, Türkiye, 24 - 27 Nisan 2018, cilt.2, ss.242

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 2
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İzmir
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.242
  • Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Depending upon the increasing vehicle demand and developing transport sector in the World, the tire fabrication has been accelerated. That causes the very increasing amount scrap tire at the end of physical and economical life of these used tires. Controlling of the storage and recycling of the scrap tire is a very important for the sustainable environment. In order to eliminate the negative effect of scrap tires to the environment, they can be utilized after several industrial treatments with four general methods like direct utilization, utilization as material, thermal utilization and utilization as raw material. The main purpose of this study to use recycled tire rubber in concrete mixtures to produce rubberized concrete. Using scrap tire as aggregate in concrete increases the ductility and the capacity to absorb energy of the concrete. By replacing aggregates with relatively weaker scrap tire mechanical properties supposed to be reduced. However, some durability properties of concrete are increased such as freeze-thaw resistance by using scrap tire in concrete. The use of scrap tire in concrete mixtures not only help to save the environment from a very dangerous waste material but can also improve certain properties of concrete for particular design applications.