Evaluation of mechanical properties of concrete containing tire-rubber particles, steel fibers, and polypropylene fiber modified with highly concentrated sulfuric acid

Shadfar, Arash; Nani, Mehdi; Shirinabadi, Reza; Hosseini, Seyed Azim

doi:10.22075/ijnaa.2025.34588.5172

Evaluation of mechanical properties of concrete containing tire-rubber particles, steel fibers, and polypropylene fiber modified with highly concentrated sulfuric acid

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Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Arash Shadfar ¹

Mehdi Nani ¹

Reza Shirinabadi ²

Seyed Azim Hosseini ¹

¹ Department of Civil Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Civil Engineering and Research Center for Modeling and Optimization in Science and Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.22075/ijnaa.2025.34588.5172

Abstract

In general, waste materials exist as solid, liquid, or gas. The wastes from the tire industries are classified as solid wastes, and due to their harmful environmental consequences, they cannot be buried in landfills. On the other hand, if waste car tires are buried, a significant area will be occupied without any environmental benefits. Landfills of rubber waste may cause uncontrollable fires, resulting in widespread air pollution. At the same time, due to the possibility of replacing a part of fine-grained or coarse-grained concrete with tire-rubber particles, two main advantages of using economic concrete with special characteristics and positive environmental consequences will be obtained. In this research, we will evaluate the effect of the modification of tire-rubber particles using sulfuric acid solution on improving mechanical characteristics and fresh rubber concrete containing steel and polypropylene fibers. The obtained results indicate that modifying the characteristics of tire rubber particles using highly concentrated sulfuric acid positively improves the properties of concrete.

Keywords

Rubberized concrete

Tire-rubber particles

compressive strength

flexural strength

sulfuric acid

steel fibers

polypropylene fibers

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