Physical and mechanical properties of granulated rubber mixed with granular soils—a literature review

A Tasalloti, G Chiaro, A Murali, L Banasiak - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
End-of-life tires (ELTs) represent a great source of readily available, low-cost and
sustainable construction materials having excellent engineering properties. Their reuse (in …

Current practices and the way forward in waste rubber utilization for infrastructural and geoenvironmental engineering applications

P Singh, VSNS Goli, DN Singh - Environmental Technology …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Rubber manufacturers, and especially the automobile industry, along with urban local
bodies, recyclers, and society by large, are facing a major challenge in terms of reuse and/or …

Recycling of end-of-life tires (ELTs) for sustainable geotechnical applications: a New Zealand perspective

A Tasalloti, G Chiaro, A Murali, L Banasiak, A Palermo… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
End-of-life tires (ELTs) are tires, unusable in their original form, which go into a waste
management scheme (for recycling and energy recovery purposes), or otherwise are …

Experimental investigation of the mechanical behaviour of gravel-granulated tyre rubber mixtures

A Tasalloti, G Chiaro, L Banasiak, A Palermo - Construction and building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recycling and reuse of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) in civil engineering applications is an
effective way to minimise environmental and health issues associated with such waste …

Experimental study on sand-tire chip mixture foundations acting as a soil liquefaction countermeasure

G Nikitas, S Bhattacharya - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2023 - Springer
Soil liquefaction is a phenomenon associated with strong earthquakes and it can affect large
areas. High-rise and low-rise buildings, residential structures typically of 1–2 storeys, may …

[HTML][HTML] Direct shear behavior of gravel-rubber mixtures: Discrete element modeling and microscopic investigations

K Chew, G Chiaro, JS Vinod, A Tasalloti… - Soils and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a newly developed 3-dimentional discrete element model (DEM) for gravel-
rubber mixtures (GRMs), namely DEM4GRM, that is capable of accurately describing the …

Grain shape effects on the liquefaction response of geotextile-reinforced sands

B Lakkimsetti, ML Gali - International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground …, 2023 - Springer
Using low-cost polymeric geosynthetics has proven to be a sustainable solution for a wide
range of geotechnical problems, including liquefaction and associated disasters. The grain …

Cyclic and postcyclic interface characteristics of geotextile-embedded sand-rubber composites

N Madani, I Hosseinpour, M Payan… - Journal of Materials in …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
A set of 48 cyclic and 12 monotonic large-scale direct shear tests was performed to assess
the interface properties of sand–rubber composite along a nonwoven geotextile layer …

Influence of loading history and soil type on the normal contact behavior of natural sand grain-elastomer composite interfaces

Y Tian, SS Kasyap, K Senetakis - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recycled rubber in granulated form is a promising geosynthetic material to be used in
geotechnical/geo-environmental engineering and infrastructure projects, and it is typically …

Experimental research on compressibility characteristics of recycled concrete aggregate: recycled tire waste mixtures

K Gabryś - Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 2023 - Springer
The utilization of processed rubber and construction waste in lieu of soil as a substrate could
improve significantly seismic performance, while addressing the pressing environmental …