TY - GEN
T1 - Properties of Concrete Containing Scrap-tire Chips
AU - Tang, Waiching
AU - Cui, Hongzhi
AU - Lo, Yiu
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Nowadays, one of the most essential environmental issues around the world is to deal with the scrap tire problem. Tires that are used, rejected or unwanted are classified as scrap tires and need to be managed responsibly. In this paper, the scrap tires were shredded into pieces and used to mix with normal weight concrete. Extensive laboratory tests were carried out and the focus of this paper was to characterize the mechanical and permeability properties of concrete containing scrap tires. The main parameters studied were chipped tire content and size. The results showed that the scrap-tire chips without adding special bonding agents apparently showed an even distribution in the mortar and concrete matrix. The elastic modulus, compressive and tensile strengths of scrap tire concrete in general were found lower than that of the control concrete and the differences became significant when the content and size of chipped tires in the mix were increased. Besides, the coefficients of water permeability of concrete were found to increase with increase of chipped tires in the mix.
AB - Nowadays, one of the most essential environmental issues around the world is to deal with the scrap tire problem. Tires that are used, rejected or unwanted are classified as scrap tires and need to be managed responsibly. In this paper, the scrap tires were shredded into pieces and used to mix with normal weight concrete. Extensive laboratory tests were carried out and the focus of this paper was to characterize the mechanical and permeability properties of concrete containing scrap tires. The main parameters studied were chipped tire content and size. The results showed that the scrap-tire chips without adding special bonding agents apparently showed an even distribution in the mortar and concrete matrix. The elastic modulus, compressive and tensile strengths of scrap tire concrete in general were found lower than that of the control concrete and the differences became significant when the content and size of chipped tires in the mix were increased. Besides, the coefficients of water permeability of concrete were found to increase with increase of chipped tires in the mix.
KW - Mechanical properties and water permeability
KW - Scrap tires
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/83755229083
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/pubmetrics.uri?eid=2-s2.0-83755229083&origin=recordpage
U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.399-401.1251
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.399-401.1251
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783037853092
T3 - Advanced Materials Research
SP - 1251
EP - 1256
BT - New Materials, Applications and Processes
A2 - Zeng, Jianmin
A2 - Kim, Yun-Hae
A2 - Chen, Yanfeng
PB - Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
T2 - 2011 International Conference on Chemical, Material and Metallurgical Engineering (ICCMME 2011)
Y2 - 23 December 2011 through 25 December 2011
ER -