Crumb rubber is a material produced by shredding and commutating used tires. Waste tire dumping, disposal of these materials or burning these tires cause serious health and environmental problems. On the other side the traffic intensity also increasing day by day and thus bearing capacities also increased the long term goal of the work is to find a means to dispose of the crumb rubber in concre...

Seismic base isolation are devices that used to limit the human and material damage caused by an earthquake. This devices diffuse the energy induced at the time of the earthquake before being transferred to the structure.The base isolated structures when subjected to the near-fault eathquakes which contain long-period velocity pulses that may coincide with the period of base isolated structures...

Nowadays, soil reinforcement using polymer elements have been investigated by a number of researchers in order to increase the load capacity of soils. Reinforcing soils using fibers is a method of soil improvement, which offers a homogenous mixture in combination with soils, regarding their tensile strength. This combination maintains pressure loading capacity and properties in mutual resistant...

Natural and synthetic rubber is gaining increased interest in various industrial applications daily life sectors (automotive industry, acoustic electrical isolators, adhesives, impermeable surfaces, others) due to its remarkable physicomechanical properties, excellent durability, abrasive resistance. These great characteristics are accompanied by some recycling difficulties of the final product...

Abstract Simple strategies are used to physically represent the cabin pressure acting on elastomeric seals for aircraft door applications. The relationships between rubber response, contact problem and air assumed as initial step understand risks of leakage during early stages a flight cycle. Through finite element method, non-linear boundary is investigated with distinct response from two type...