Approximately 246 million waste tires are generated annually in the United States. That is roughly three per four individuals country. Most end up landfills, adversely affecting environment. In last two decades, researchers have explored using tire chips concrete to replace a portion of coarse aggregates. Past studies indicated that 50% aggregates can be replaced with chips. This research propo...

The devastation caused by the illegal dumping and burning of tires has been staggering. In civil engineering, using engineering properties become a major concern. For this investigation, research used locally sourced tire chips sand. Using sand as an alternative backfill material requires less pressure more improved than traditional backfill. Four specimens were utilized in experiment: pure mix...

A nonlinear model consisting “yaw, roll, longitudinal, lateral and pitch” has been developed in which, tire and suspension characteristics have been considered. Tire model is based on the elliptic concept and tire Calspan data. According to this tire model, cornering force and aligning moment are computed as a function of slip and camber (inclination) angles, normal load, tire adhesion characte...

Tire cavity noise refers to the vehicle noise due to the excitation of the acoustic mode of a tire air cavity. Although two lowest acoustic modes are found to be sufficient to characterize the cavity dynamics, the dynamical response of these two modes is complicated by two major factors. First, the tire cavity geometry is affected by the static load applied to the tire due to vehicle weight. Se...