Workability and Durability of Concrete Incorporating Waste Tire Rubber: A Review

Abstract

Environmental problems caused by waste tires are becoming increasingly prominent. There is an urgent need to find a green way to dispose of waste tires, and scholars have made considerable efforts in this regard. In the construction industry, rubber extracted from waste tires can be added to concrete to alleviate environmental problems to a certain extent. As a new building material, rubber concrete has superior properties compared to ordinary concrete and has been widely used in many fields. Numerous studies have been conducted worldwide to investigate the effect of waste tire rubber on the performance of concrete. It has been reported that the addition of waste tire rubber has a significant influence on the performance of concrete. Workability influences the hardened performance of rubber concrete, especially the durability. Based on the current research results, the workability and durability of concrete manufactured with waste tire rubber, including water absorption and permeability, carbonation resistance, chloride ion permeability resistance, and freeze-thaw resistance, are summarized in this paper. It is concluded that the addition of waste tires has a negative effect on the workability of concrete. In terms of durability, concrete exhibits better chloride ion penetration resistance and frost resistance, with a higher water absorption rate, and lower anti-permeability and carbonation resistance owing to the addition of waste tire rubber.

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“…Thermal insulation capacity, fracture resistance and electric resistivity of RuC, however, are superior over the conventional concrete [254,255]. The freeze-thaw resistance is improved by the increased porosity of RuC, while the freezing resistance is degraded by the rubber particles [57]. The workability of RuC is degraded by the increased viscosity and decreased slump value [57].…”

“…Aggregates from plastic and polymeric wastes present opportunities for lightweight concretes [45,54,55]. Applications of the end-of-life tyres in pavements and concretes became a subject of intensive research [55,[57][58][59][60][61]. Concrete with rubber particles recycled from end-of-life tyres was dubbed rubberised concrete.…”

“…The possibility of recycling stockpiles of waste tyres and replacement of natural sand has been driving the research on RuC for the last two decades [57,[251][252][253]. The results of recent studies on the mechanical properties of RuC are systematically in [55].…”

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“…All these materials have been classified as replacements or additives. Due to the wide interest in rubberized concrete, several hundred articles (above 1100 based on the Web of Science, September 2023, combining "recycled rubber" with "concrete") have been published, which can be regrouped into a dozen review articles over the last two years [56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]. The main results are reported here.…”

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“…The carbonation depth of concrete specimens in a specific concentration of CO 2 medium can be used to evaluate the long-term stability (or durability) of the concrete. 16 Zhang 17 discovered a relationship between natural carbonation and artificially accelerated carbonation. This correlation formula may be utilized to calculate carbonation rate coefficients and anticipate the carbonation process.…”