Volume : IV, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Effect of Rubber Tyre Waste in Concrete

N. Ponmalar, C. Vigneshkumar, B. Sunantha

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The disposal of waste tyres is becoming a major waste management problem in the world at the moment. It is estimated that 1.2 billions of waste tyre rubber produced globally in a year, in which 11% of post consumer tyres are exported and 27% are sent to landfill, stockpiled or dumped illegally and only 4% is used for civil engineering projects. Hence efforts have been taken to identify the potential application of waste tyres in civil engineering projects. In this essence, our present study aims to investigate the optimal use of waste tyre rubber crumbs as fine aggregate in concrete composite. A total of 72 cubes and cylinders specimens were cast with the replacement of fine aggregate by rubber crumbs with the proportion of 3%, 6%, 9% by weight and compared with the conventional specimens. Hardened properties of concrete such as compressive strength and tensile strength were carried out .From the test results, it is recommended that 3% replacement level of waste tyre rubber aggregate will be optimum replacement in concrete composites

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N.Ponmalar,C.Vigneshkumar,B.Sunantha Effect of Rubber Tyre Waste in Concrete Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue : 11 November 2014

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