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Scrap tyres can be shredded into chips and can easily be mixed with granular soils. To assess the behaviour of the admixtures, compressibility and triaxial compression tests were carried out by varying chip size and chip content. The results demonstrated that sand–tyre chip mixtures up to 20% could be a potential material for highway construction and embankment construction up to around 10 m height.
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Rao, G.V., Dutta, R.K. Compressibility and Strength Behaviour of Sand–tyre Chip Mixtures. Geotech Geol Eng 24, 711–724 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-004-4006-x
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