https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714012015
Sand – rubber mixtures submitted to isotropic loading: a minimal model
1 LUNAM Université, IFSTTAR, MAST, GPEM, F-44340 Bouguenais, France
2 GeM (Institut de recherche en génie civil et mécanique), CNRS UMR 6183, École Centrale de Nantes, F-44321 Nantes, France
3 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol. Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
* e-mail: auriane.platzer@eleves.ec-nantes.fr
** e-mail: salman.rouhanifar@bristol.ac.uk
*** e-mail: patrick.richard@ifsttar.fr
**** e-mail: bogdan.cazacliu@ifsttar.fr
† e-mail: erdin.ibraim@bristol.ac.uk
Published online: 30 June 2017
The volume of scrap tyres, an undesired urban waste, is increasing rapidly in every country. Mixing sand and rubber particles as a lightweight backfill is one of the possible alternatives to avoid stockpiling them in the environment. This paper presents a minimal model aiming to capture the evolution of the void ratio of sand-rubber mixtures undergoing an isotropic compression loading. It is based on the idea that, submitted to a pressure, the rubber chips deform and partially fill the porous space of the system, leading to a decrease of the void ratio with increasing pressure. Our simple approach is capable of reproducing experimental data for two types of sand (a rounded one and a sub-angular one) and up to mixtures composed of 50% of rubber.
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