Reinforcing Effect of Waste Tires As Reinforcement Material

지반보강재로서 폐타이어의 보강 효과

  • 윤여원 (인하대학교 공과대학 토목공학과) ;
  • 최경순 (에스코컨설턴트) ;
  • 천성한 (인하대학교, 인천국제공항공사)
  • Published : 2003.03.01

Abstract

This study presented the reinforcing effect of sands by using newly devised 3D Tirecell. Plate loading tests for sand were conducted for different relative density and number of reinforced layers. From the tests, the ultimate bearing capacity of reinforced sand increased with increasing relative densities. The effect of reinforced layers with 0.4B interval is limited to 2 layers and further reinforcing effects can not be obtained beyond 3 layers. Especially the bearing capacity increased remarkably at 1 layer of Tirecell reinforcement and the degree of increase was small for 1 layer to 2 layers increase of reinforcement. Test results show that the reinforcing effect of Tirecell is prominent compared with commercial geocell in the literature.

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