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Effect of Particle Sizes and Dosages of Rubber Waste on the Mechanical Properties of Rubberized Concrete Composite

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posted on 2024-11-02, 21:15 authored by Safeer Abbas, Ayesha Fatima, Syed Kazmi, Muhammad Munir, Shahid Ali Ali, Mujasim Rizvi
The utilization of waste rubber in concrete composites has gained more attention nowadays owing to its enhanced engineering properties and eco-friendly viability. This study explored the effect of waste rubber sizes and its contents on the mechanical properties of developed concrete composites. Rubber waste with various particle sizes (R1, R5 and R10) was replaced with 10%, 20% and 30% of aggregates by volume, and the workability, compressive, splitting tensile and flexural strengths and impact resistance of the developed composite were investigated. An increase in the waste rubber contents decreased the slump of the composite due to the rougher surface of the rubber particles. The reduction in the slump was more pronounced for mixtures with smaller rubber sizes. Similarly, an increase in rubber contents decreased the compressive strength, tensile strength and flexural strength because of the lower stiffness of the used rubber waste and the poor bond between the rubber particles and the matrix. For instance, an approximately 27% decrease in compressive strength was observed for the mixture incorporating 20% of R1 rubber compared to that of the control mixture without rubber. It was observed that the incorporation of rubber waste in the concrete composite led to an enhanced resilience toward impact loading due to the improved energy dissipation mechanism offered by the rubberized concrete composite. For example, 13 blows in the case of 30% of the rubber replacement were required for the final crack as compared to 5 blows for the control mixture without rubber. It can be concluded that the choice of the optimal replacement ratio and the size of the rubber yield the developed rubberized concrete composite with a desirable strength and impact resistance.

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Journal

Applied Sciences

Volume

12

Number

8460

Issue

17

Start page

1

End page

21

Total pages

21

Publisher

MDPI AG

Place published

Switzerland

Language

English

Copyright

Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

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2006117896

Esploro creation date

2022-11-26

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