For many years there has been a goal of putting recycled rubber into concrete.
The aim is to make good use of a recycled product that has proven difficult to dispose of – and always will be a challenge for disposal, and add it to concrete to create a lighter end product without losing the characteristics of traditional concrete.
One of the challenges was that the rubber used was hydrophobic, so it did not readily mix – addressing that issue was critical to any project using tyre rubber. There were also issues with the end product in terms of strength and spalling when exposed to f...
