Potential use of recycled plastic and rubber aggregate in cementitious materials for sustainable construction: A review

R Alyousef, W Ahmad, A Ahmad, F Aslam… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increased awareness of the environment has contributed to concerns regarding our
indiscriminate disposal of plastic and rubber wastes that cause landfill problems. During the …

Functions and impacts of plastic/rubber wastes as eco-friendly aggregate in concrete–A review

X Li, TC Ling, KH Mo - Construction and building materials, 2020 - Elsevier
About 6.5 billion tons of discarded plastic and rubber wastes are generated every year
globally, and the disposal of these wastes poses a great threat to the environment due to …

Promoting sustainable materials using recycled rubber in concrete: A review

J Mei, G Xu, W Ahmad, K Khan, MN Amin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
A rapid hike in demand for vehicle tires has been observed in recent decades, consequently
increasing the quantity of waste rubber worldwide. The present state of waste rubber …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive overview about recycling rubber as fine aggregate replacement in traditional cementitious materials

AM Rashad - International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Currently, the need to incorporate recycled materials such as rubber in building products is
becoming more important than ever before. The use of waste rubber in mortar/concrete …

Effect of cement dosage and waste tire rubber on the mechanical, transport and abrasion characteristics of foam concretes subjected to H2SO4 and freeze–thaw

OY Bayraktar, H Soylemez, G Kaplan, A Benli… - … and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experimental study of the effects of cement dosage and waste tire
rubber as aggregate on the mechanical, transport and abrasion characteristics of foam …

Performance of engineered cementitious composites incorporating crumb rubber as aggregate

A Adesina, S Das - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Engineered cementitious composites (ECC) are a special type of fiber reinforced
cementitious composites that are reinforced with Polyvinyl alcohol fibers. ECC exhibits …

Experimental investigation on mechanical properties of plain and rubberised concretes with steel–polypropylene hybrid fibre

EAH Alwesabi, BHA Bakar, IMH Alshaikh… - Construction and Building …, 2020 - Elsevier
Researchers are currently investigating the incorporation of recycled materials from worn
automobile tyres such as crumb rubber (CR) aggregate in concrete to resolve the issue of …

Recycled rubber as an aggregate replacement in self-compacting concrete—Literature overview

R Bušić, I Miličević, TK Šipoš, K Strukar - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the past few decades, due to the exponential increase of the world's population, the
number of discarded waste tires has become a serious ecological and environmental …

Physico-mechanical and performance characterization of mortars incorporating fine glass waste aggregate

P Penacho, J de Brito, MR Veiga - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2014 - Elsevier
The effective management of construction and demolition waste (CDW) is a major challenge
for the construction sector. To address such needs, this research work focuses on a specific …

Hygro-thermal and durability properties of a lightweight mortar made with foamed plastic waste aggregates

B Coppola, L Courard, F Michel, L Incarnato… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, hygro-thermal and durability related properties of a cementitious mortar
containing highly porous foamed aggregates obtained from polymeric end-of-waste …