Sadaqat Ullah Khan1, Afzal Ahmed1,*, Sajjad Ali2, Ayesha Ayub2, Ahmed Shuja1, Muhammad Ahsan Shahid1
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.5, pp. 1013-1029, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.014344
- 20 February 2021
Abstract Scrapped tires from vehicles are produced in large quantities. Despite numerous existing uses of scrapped tires, a
large quantity ends up at the landfill sites, which contributes to environmental degradation. The development of
more applications of scrapped tire usage can reduce the disposal of tires at landfill sites. This research proposes a
novel use of scrapped tires by using the strips taken from scrapped tires in replacement of steel bars as reinforcement. Manhole covers were produced using scrapped tires by completely replacing the steel with scrapped tires.
Four different samples of manhole covers were prepared… More >