Plastic and rubber products considered of being a great importance to humans, but
their residues and wastes are a real environmental disaster. They are dumped in fields,
streams and forests or buried in large landfills that pose a serious hazard th
at needs to work
on solve it in the best possible way.
On the other hand, the economic problems caused by the erosion of concrete cement
have made it the major problem of infrastructure in the industrialized countries. Over the
past three decades, this problem has reached alarming proportions, which led to high repair
costs, whether in concrete or in reinforcing steel, Especially acidic media due to concrete
permeability of acid rainwater, where these costs exceeded initial construction amounts in
some cases.
This paper deals with the recycling of used tires and some types of plastic waste to
be used in the preparation of insulating materials for water and heat at a low cost compared
to the insulation materials currently used in the construction process, in addition to the
preparation of floor tiles for internal and external use.
Recently worldwide researches have been devoted to the use of steel fibers recovered from used tires in concrete. In Syria the amount of recovered steel from used tires is estimated about 6000 tons/year.
For this purpose a bead wire having a diamete
r of 0.8 mm from burnt tires was extracted and used. Three mixes with cement content 300- 350 -400kg/m3 were produced incorporating three different volumes of fiber 0.5%, 1.0%, and 1.5% and three different length 30-40-60 mm. The concrete obtained by adding these fibers evidenced a satisfactory improvement of the fragile matrix mostly in terms of toughness and post cracking behavior On the other hand it was improvements in compressive strength by steel fiber inclusion the interesting results confirm the promising application of concrete reinforced with steel fibers extracted from used tires in aircraft pavement hydraulic structures and ground slab in fabrics.
