Title: Retaining Wall Shake-Table Test and Design Using Tire Derived Aggregates as Backfill (NEES-2011-1099)

Year Of Curation: 2014

Description: In the United States, 200-300 million tires are scrapped annually. Many of them had been stockpiled in landfills, which caused serious public health problems as well as environmental issues. These days, most developed countries prohibit legal and illegal stockpiling of scrap tires and promote recycling and recovering materials. Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA) is made by cutting waste tires into 5 to 450 mm pieces to be used in civil engineering applications as lightweight aggregates.

Award: California Department of Resource Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Caltrans

PIs & CoPIs: Dawn Cheng

Dates: December 29, 2011 to Present

Organizations: University of California, Davis, CA, United States

Facilities: University of California, San Diego, CA, United States

Sponsor: California Department of Resource Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) - n/a -

Keywords:,TDA,Tire Derived Aggregate,Tire Recycling,retaining wall,Seismic Design,Shake Table Testing,Full scale testing

Publications: 

• Dawn Cheng (2017), "Retaining Wall Shake-Table Test and Design Using Tire Derived Aggregates as Backfill (NEES-2011-1099)," https://datacenterhub.org/deedsdv/publications/view/495.