The disposal of waste tire has caused a significant health and environmental problem
around the world. Nearly 1 billion tons of tires are discarded each year. Among the …

The accumulation of discarded tires is an escalating concern, due to the environmental
hazards like longterm degradation, observed in both develo** and developed nations …

This paper presents experimental investigations on the feasibility of using a sand-rubber
deformable granular layer as a low-cost seismic isolation strategy for develo** countries …

Loose specimens with a void ratio of 0.86, corresponding to a relative density of 30% for the
pure sand, and normal stresses of 50, 100 and 150 kPa were used in this work to study …

Rubber-sand mixtures (RSM) have gained recognition as a valuable, lightweight, and cost-
efficient energy-absorbing material with extensive potential application in engineering …

Huge stockpiles of End-of-Life Tires (ELTs) are of major global concern. This paper
investigates and helps to demonstrate the beneficial utilization of ELTs to provide …

Mixing soil or sand with tire rubber fibers or buffings is a practical and promising solution to
the problem of global scrap tire pollution. However, sand–rubber mixtures exhibit …

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 …

This paper presents a numerical method to investigate the critical-state behaviors of the soft-
rigid mixture via DEM simulation. First, according to a series of laboratory tests of sand …

The mechanical behaviors and properties of rubber-sand mixtures are interesting and of
practical importance but are not fully understood yet. In this study, 168 direct shear tests …