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Use Of Eps-Filled Tires As Lightweight Construction Material, Sethapong Sethabouppha
Use Of Eps-Filled Tires As Lightweight Construction Material, Sethapong Sethabouppha
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The purpose of this research is to study the possibility of recycling discarded automobile tires as a lightweight construction material by injecting expanded polystyrene (EPS) into the hollow space of the tires. The observation from compression tests on used tires revealed that the tread wall of these tires bent toward their own center. This inward deformation should provide confining stress to the contained EPS, and thus the compressive strength of EPS-tire composite was expected to be higher than that of EPS.
To produce EPS-filled tire prototypes for this study, EPS type II, with density of 24 kg/m3, was injected into …