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The Use of Scrap Tire Strips to Improve the Pullout Behavior of Geotextiles

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Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) walls have become more popular among the existing options for implementing retaining walls worldwide. Specifically, geotextiles have been used in low-height MSE walls to reduce overall costs and, in some cases, to bring additional advantages as internal drainage, in case of non-woven geotextiles. In contrast, these geosynthetic materials may present relatively large elongation and reduced pullout resistance comparatively to geogrids. The present study proposes a low-cost and environmentally friendly solution for the problems recycling truck scrap tires. A series of pullout tests was performed to evaluate the advantages of using recycled strips of truck scrap tires (385/80/R22.5) as longitudinal members of a non-woven geotextile. Results revealed that adding three longitudinal members (S/H = 3.5) to the non-woven geotextile scrap tire (NGTS) increased the pullout resistance by more than 90% of the ordinary NWGT reinforcement. Using the NGTS reinforcement instead of NWGT also reduced the internal displacements as the scrap tire longitudinal members reduce the necking effect enhancing the geotextile stiffness.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Sirjan University of Technology, Sirjan, Iran

    Mehrdad Tajabadipour

  2. School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Morteza khaleghi

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, DECiv, Universidade Federal de São Carlos-UFSCar, 235 Washington Luis Roadway, Mailbox 676, Sao Carlos, SP, 13.565-905, Brazil

    Fernando Henrique Martins Portelinha

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Tajabadipour, M., khaleghi, M. & Portelinha, F.H.M. The Use of Scrap Tire Strips to Improve the Pullout Behavior of Geotextiles. Int. J. of Geosynth. and Ground Eng. 9, 65 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40891-023-00481-8

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