{"id":114543,"date":"2022-08-30T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=114543"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T08:21:57","slug":"concrete-using-recycled-tyre-rubber-hits-the-road-to-a-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/concrete-using-recycled-tyre-rubber-hits-the-road-to-a-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete using recycled tyre rubber hits the road to a circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

The team from RMIT University says the new greener and lighter concrete also promises to reduce manufacturing and transportation costs significantly. Small amounts of rubber particles from tyres are already used to replace these concrete aggregates, but efforts to replace all of the aggregates with rubber have produced weak concretes that failed to meet the required standards \u2013 until now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study published in the Resources, Conservation & Recycling<\/em> journal reveals a manufacturing process for structural lightweight concrete where the traditional coarse aggregates in the mix were completely replaced by rubber from used car tyres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lead author and PhD researcher from RMIT University\u2019s School of Engineering, Mohammad Momeen Ul Islam, said the findings debunked a popular theory on what could be achieved with recycled rubber particles in concrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have demonstrated with our precise casting method that this decades-old perceived limitation on using large amounts of coarse rubber particles in concrete can now be overcome,\u201d Islam<\/strong> said.<\/p>

\u201cThe technique involves using newly designed casting moulds to compress the coarse rubber aggregate in fresh concrete that enhances the building material\u2019s performance.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This advance builds on the breakthrough invention of this technique<\/a> by fellow RMIT University Engineers Professor Yufei Wu, Dr Syed Kazmi, Dr Muhammad Munir and Shenzhen University’s Professor Yingwu Zhou. Several national phase patent<\/a> applications are now  filed to continue protection of this technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concrete mixing using recycled tyre rubber particles for the complete replacement of traditional coarse aggregates. \u00a9<\/strong> RMIT, Mohammad Islam<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Greener, cheaper and lighter building materials<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Study co-author and team leader, Professor Jie Li, said this manufacturing process will unlock environmental and economic benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a major portion of typical concrete is coarse aggregate, replacing all of this with used tyre rubber can significantly reduce the consumption of natural resources and also address the major environmental challenge of what to do with used tyres,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Used tyres in Australia cannot be exported, making new methods for recycling and reprocessing them locally increasingly important. About 1.2 billion waste tyres will be disposed of annually worldwide by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greener and lighter concrete could also greatly reduce manufacturing and transportation costs, Li said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis would benefit a range of developments including low-cost housing projects in rural and remote parts of Australia and other countries around the world.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The RMIT team\u2019s new casting technique generates structural lightweight concrete from used tyre rubber. \u00a9<\/strong> RMIT, Mohammad Islam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next steps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The team\u2019s manufacturing process could be scaled up cost effectively within a precast concrete industrial setting in Australia and overseas, Islam said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following successful testing in the workshop, the team is now looking into reinforcing the concrete to see how it can work in structural elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RMIT research team also includes Professor Yu-Fei Wu, Dr Rajeev Roychand and Dr Mohammad Saberian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Design and strength optimization method for the production of structural lightweight concrete: An experimental investigation for the complete replacement of conventional coarse aggregates by waste rubber particles\u2019  is published in the Resources, Conservation & Recycling<\/em> journal (DOI: 10.1016\/j.resconrec.2022.106390<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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