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Soil Stabilization by using Scrap Tire Rubber

2020; International Research Publication House; Volume: V9; Issue: 06 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17577/ijertv9is060592

2278-0181

Deepti V. Zutting,

Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization

The amount of tire wastes, an unwanted urban-industry surplus, has been increasing every year throughout the world.One of the chances to dispose of this waste material is to use these refuses, as a stabilizer in soils, in order to increase the strength properties and the bearing capacity of the soil-stabilizer mixture.In this thesis, in order to study the influence of crumb rubber waste on relative density and shear strength, series of experiments have been performed on dune sand samples with different dune sandcrumb rubber ratios.Various dune sand-crumb rubber mixtures having 0 %, 5 %, 10 %, 15%, 20%, 25% and 30 %, waste crumb rubber particles by weight were chosen.To find the effect of waste crumb rubber on shear strength, direct shear test device has been used.It was found that addition of up to 20% of crumb rubber to dune sand noticeably increased the shear strength parameters: cohesion and the internal friction angle.The dune sand-crumb rubber mixture created more plastic material and produced an apparent cohesion in the crumb rubber treated dune sand.Since dune sand-crumb rubber mixtures are lightweight materials and they apply less lateral earth pressures on retaining structures, application of crumb rubber into the dune sand is still promising.