Sustainable design and carbon-credited application framework of recycled steel fibre reinforced concrete

Xia Qin; Xu Huang; Sakdirat Kaewunruen

doi:10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100404

Sustainable design and carbon-credited application framework of recycled steel fibre reinforced concrete

Xia Qin, Xu Huang, Sakdirat Kaewunruen^*

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Abstract

Waste tires pose significant environmental, health, and fire risks. Creative waste management solutions, including reuse, recycle and repurpose, are necessary to mitigate those impacts while enriching their valorisation. An innovative solution is the upcycling of recycled steel fibre (RSF) from waste tires to enhance strength and durability of concrete. This study thus experimentally examines dynamic and mechanical behaviours of high-strength concrete with varying proportions of RSF, from 0% to 1.2% by volume. The results reveal that high-strength concrete with 1.2% RSF exhibits the best improvement in strengths. In addition, the damping ratio, dynamic modulus of RSF concrete and SEM images confirm valorisation potentials of waste fibres. Via a robust critical lifecycle analysis, the new insights form a new sustainable design and carbon credited application framework for RSF. Our results portray that innovative recycling practices for end-of-life tires yield substantial environmental benefits, including a significant carbon emission reduction.

Original language	English
Article number	100404
Number of pages	17
Journal	Developments in the Built Environment
Volume	18
Early online date	16 Mar 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dibe.2024.100404
Publication status	Published - Apr 2024

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Acknowledgments:
The authors are grateful to the European Commission for the financial sponsorship of the H2020-RISE Project No. 691135 “RISEN: Rail Infrastructure Systems Engineering Network,” which enables a global research network that tackles the grand challenge in railway infrastructure resilience and advanced sensing in extreme environments. In addition, the authors wish to thank the European Commission and UKRI Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) for the financial sponsorship of Re4Rail project (Grant No. EP/Y015401/1). This article is partially based upon work from COST Action (Circular B — Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment, CA21103), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). The APC has been kindly sponsored by the University of Birmingham Library’s Open Access Fund.

Keywords

Recycled steel fibres
Sustainable concrete composites
Fibre reinforced concrete
Carbon credit
Upcycling

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Kaewunruen, S.
European Commission - Management Costs, European Commission
1/04/16 → 30/09/21
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Sustainable design and carbon-credited application framework of recycled steel fibre reinforced concrete

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