Poland as a Member State is obliged to implement the EU specific environmental legislation focused on the reduction, transport and treatment of waste. The Landfill Directive prohibited the landfilling of whole tyres and their by-products. Although the EU Directive of Waste limits the use of tyres as secondary fuel, Poland is still the EU leader in burning tyres in cement kilns. Post-consumer tyres are utilised in a number of engineering applications, which can be devided divided to those that use either whole or fragmented tyres. Looking for the methods of the valuable steel tyre-cord application in construction sector, became the main reason of research conducted in the laboratory of the Department of Concrete Structures at Gdansk University of Technology. The tests of recycled fibres in concrete show the improvement of the mechanical properties ofsuch modified concrete mechanical properties like as the increase of concrete strength comparable to industrial fibres.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2013
