Large-Scale Testing of the Static One-Dimensional Compression Response of Tire-Derived Aggregate
Publication: Geo-Congress 2023
ABSTRACT
Tire-derived aggregate (TDA) has been adopted in multiple civil engineering applications as a lightweight fill that has the additional benefit of being a recycled material. While the compression response of TDA with small particle sizes has been studied in the literature, there is a lack of data on the response of Type B TDA with larger particles having a maximum dimension of 300 mm. This study focused on assessing the one-dimensional compression response of an 810 mm-thick layer of Type B TDA under quasi-static uniaxial compressive stresses in a large-scale rigid container having a length of 5.029 m and a width of 2.184 m. First, this paper presents the results of one-dimensional compression response of Type B TDA under a constant rate of strain test up to a vertical effective stress of 20.4 kPa, which was then maintained for 1 h to evaluate the creep response. A bi-log-linear compression curve fitted to the nonlinear compression curve for Type B TDA had compression and recompression indices of 0.32 and 0.04, respectively, that are greater than those of most soils. A hyperbolic model was also found to provide a good fit to the data. A secondary compression index of 0.0029 was observed during creep testing, within the range of values obtained from studies on TDA with smaller particle sizes.
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