<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper reviews selected surveys carried out within the R&amp;D project, co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund, called “ReUse - Innovative Recycling Materials, Enhancing the Sustainability of Bridge Facilities” (Innotech No. K3 / IN3 / 38/228116 / NCBiR / 15). The aim of the project and conducted research is to develop and implement innovative, cheap and environmentally-friendly recycled construction material in the form of tyre bales made from compressed used car tyres. This material is likely to be applied in civil engineering, especially in transport infrastructure, geotechnical and hydraulic engineering. New material is cheap and has unique properties such as low weight, high water permeability, high vibration and noise-damping capacity, low pressure coefficient values and other parameters that technically and economically allow it to replace natural aggregates. The extensive practical application of new material will facilitate the replacement of waste management methods with the environmentally friendly ones.</p></abstract>

The paper reviews selected surveys carried out within the R&D project, co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund, called “ReUse - Innovative Recycling Materials, Enhancing the Sustainability of Bridge Facilities” (Innotech No. K3 / IN3 / 38/228116 / NCBiR / 15). The aim of the project and conducted research is to develop and implement innovative, cheap and environmentally-friendly recycled construction material in the form of tyre bales made from compressed used car tyres. This material is likely to be applied in civil engineering, especially in transport infrastructure, geotechnical and hydraulic engineering. New material is cheap and has unique properties such as low weight, high water permeability, high vibration and noise-damping capacity, low pressure coefficient values and other parameters that technically and economically allow it to replace natural aggregates. The extensive practical application of new material will facilitate the replacement of waste management methods with the environmentally friendly ones.

Initial research on recycled tyre bales for road infrastructure applications

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture

Selected Scientific Papers - Journal of Civil Engineering

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The paper reviews selected surveys carried out within the R&D project, co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund, called “ReUse - Innovative...

Initial research on recycled tyre bales for road infrastructure applications

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 55 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sspjce-2017-0019

Keywords
aggregate, earth structures, tyre recycling, tyre bales, R&D project

© 2017 Aleksander Duda et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Initial research on recycled tyre bales for road infrastructure applications

Published Online: Dec 29, 2017

Page range: 55 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/sspjce-2017-0019

Keywordsaggregate, earth structures, tyre recycling, tyre bales, R&D project

© 2017 Aleksander Duda et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
aggregate, earth structures, tyre recycling, tyre bales, R&D project