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Mechanical Performance and Environmental Assessment of Sustainable Concrete Reinforced with Recycled End-of-Life Tyre Fibres
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The presented research’s main objective was to develop the solution to the global problem of using steel waste obtained during rubber recovery during the tire recycling. A detailed comparative analysis of mechanical and physical features of the concrete composite with the addition of recycled steel fibres (RSF) in relation to the steel fibre concrete commonly used for industrial floors was conducted. A study was carried out using micro-computed tomography and the scanning electron microscope to determine the fibres’ characteristics, incl. the EDS spectrum. In order to designate the full performance of the physical and mechanical features of the novel composite, a wide range of tests was performed with particular emphasis on the determination of the tensile strength of the composite. This parameter appointed by tensile strength testing for splitting, residual tensile strength test (3-point test), and a wedge splitting test (WST), demonstrated the increase of tensile strength (vs unmodified concrete) by 43%, 30%, and 70% relevantly to the method. The indication of the reinforced composite’s fracture characteristics using the digital image correlation (DIC) method allowed to illustrate the map of deformation of the samples during WST. The novel composite was tested in reference to the circular economy concept and showed 31.3% lower energy consumption and 30.8% lower CO2 emissions than a commonly used fibre concrete.
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Maria Kaszynska
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuły w czasopismach
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Materials
no. 14,
ISSN: 1996-1944 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Bibliographic description:
- Pawelska-Mazur M., Kaszynska M.: Mechanical Performance and Environmental Assessment of Sustainable Concrete Reinforced with Recycled End-of-Life Tyre Fibres// Materials -Vol. 14,iss. 2 (2021), s.256-
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/ma14020256
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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