Recycled tire wastes mixed with soils are applicable as lightweight filling material for slopes
sub-bases of pavements and retaining walls to improve the safety of the retaining walls. Under the seismic loadings
e.g.
earthquake or traffic loads
the dynamic responses of granulated rubber/soil mixtures
such as the evolution of stress-strain
rule of cumulative pore water pressure
dynamic shear modulus
and liquefaction resistance
are essential in the design of such a system. This paper investigates the dynamic responses
liquefaction resistance mainly
of recycled rubber tire powder through mixtures with different tire powder sizes in saturated condition using cyclic triaxial tests. The results show that the larger tire powder size significantly improved liquefaction resistance of granular materials. Meanwhile
the incorporations of tire powder changes the deformation pattern and the evolution of pore water pressure compared to the pure sand. The attempt is to further explain the evolved dynamic behavior of the mixture. And the results as a supplement enrich the database of dynamic behavior of soil rubber mixture as lightweight filling material in saturated condition. Finally
the results are interpreted from the microscopic view of the point.