The European Tyre Recycling Association, based in Brussels, has announced that research findings from the European Union Anagennisi Project will be presented at a seminar set for Nov. 30 in Athens and hosted by the Concrete and Earthquake Engineering Group of the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. The event takes place at the Technical Chamber of Greece in Athens.
The 42-month-long Anagennisi project began in January of 2014 and is drawing in expertise from eight European countries. The consortium comprises five universities, a large construction company, ETRA and 10 suppliers and end users that have been examining the innovative reuse of all tyre components in concrete.
The project has focused on developing innovative solutions to reuse all tyre components in high value innovative concrete applications with reduced environmental impact. Project participants are developing materials and applications using confined rubberised concrete intended to result in highly formable concrete elements and structures. In addition, the project aims to show that tyre steel and textile fibres can be used as reinforcement to control cracking and increase toughness.
According to the project leaders, concrete needs tensile reinforcement which can be attained by cord/wire reinforcement, and increased energy dissipation and ductility in concrete can be provided by substituting conventional aggregates with rubber tyre particles.
This event will present experimental and analytical work undertaken in the FP7-European funded Anagennisi project and open discussion with industry on its needs. The participants will learn about the properties of innovative new concretes containing tyre byproducts and potential industrial applications.
FP7 was the European Union’s Research and Innovation Seventh Funding Programme, underway from 2007 to 2013, and there are many FP7 projects still running.
Participants for the free event are required to pre-register at http://goo.gl/forms/4JY1y92cP0.
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