Cement-based materials are brittle. As a consequence to their poor straining capacity and their sensitivity to shrinkage, they generally present cracking detrimental to the durability of structures. Nowadays, a solution to prevent or to delay the shrinkage cracking remains a research issue. Fibre reinforcement, restraining the crack opening, is one of the most documented way to partly reach this objective.
This paper focuses on a second option to decrease the brittleness of cementious materials: the incorporation of low modulus aggregates. The study aims to design a composite exhibiting a high straining ability before macrocracking localisation. It has been assumed that incorporating aggregates with low deformation modulus should succeed with the challenge. Rubber aggregates were chosen. They confer to the work a second facet: the opportunity to recycle rubber tyres, fulfilling a demand of clean environment conservation.
The results presented compare the properties of a plain mortar with the ones of two mixes obtained by partially replacing the sand aggregates by rubber aggregates. Two ratios of sand replacement, 20 and 30% by volume, were investigated. In both cases (natural sand and rubber aggregates), a maximum grain size of 4 mm was used. Previous results had shown that rubber aggregates are strongly detrimental to the composite strength. In return, the modulus of elasticity of the mortar incorporating rubber aggregates is substantially decreased and its straining capacity before failure is significantly increased.
On another hand rubberised mortars suffer higher length changes due to shrinkage than plain mortar. In order to weigh up benefits and deficits, ring tests have been carried out and their results clearly demonstrate the benefit: the straining capacity enhanced by rubber aggregate substitution widely offsets the additional shrinkage length changes.
The future prospects are the combination of the beneficial effects of both the fibre reinforcement and the rubber aggregate substitution to design a cimentitious composite exhibiting enhanced ductile failure.
Cement-based materials are brittle. As a consequence to their poor straining capacity and their sensitivity to shrinkage, they generally present cracking detrimental to the durability of structures. Nowadays, a solution to prevent or to delay the shrinkage cracking remains a research issue. Fibre reinforcement, restraining the crack opening, is one of the most documented way to partly reach this objective.This paper focuses on a second option to decrease the brittleness of cementious materials: the incorporation of low modulus aggregates. The study aims to design a composite exhibiting a high straining ability before macrocracking localisation. It has been assumed that incorporating aggregates with low deformation modulus should succeed with the challenge. Rubber aggregates were chosen. They confer to the work a second facet: the opportunity to recycle rubber tyres, fulfilling a demand of clean environment conservation.The results presented compare the properties of a plain mortar with the ones of two mixes obtained by partially replacing the sand aggregates by rubber aggregates. Two ratios of sand replacement, 20 and 30% by volume, were investigated. In both cases (natural sand and rubber aggregates), a maximum grain size of 4 mm was used. Previous results had shown that rubber aggregates are strongly detrimental to the composite strength. In return, the modulus of elasticity of the mortar incorporating rubber aggregates is substantially decreased and its straining capacity before failure is significantly increased.On another hand rubberised mortars suffer higher length changes due to shrinkage than plain mortar. In order to weigh up benefits and deficits, ring tests have been carried out and their results clearly demonstrate the benefit: the straining capacity enhanced by rubber aggregate substitution widely offsets the additional shrinkage length changes.The future prospects are the combination of the beneficial effects of both the fibre reinforcement and the rubber aggregate substitution to design a cimentitious composite exhibiting enhanced ductile failure.
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