Scrap Tyre Crumbs For Earthquake Protection

STATIC PROPERTIES OF SCRAP TYRE CRUMB AND SAND MIXTURES

By

DAVID METCALF

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the phase of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING ( urbane)

from

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

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Thesis Certification

I, David James Metcalf obligate that this thesis, submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Bachelor of Civil Engineering, in the school of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Wollongong, is alone and completely my own work unless otherwise referenced or acknowledged. Further to this, the document has not been submitted for qualification at whatsoever other academic institution.

David Metcalf 07 November 2010

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Acknowledgements

There are several(prenominal) volume I would like to give thanks for assisting me to complete this thesis. Firstly I would like to gratefully acknowledge my supervisors; prof Neaz Sheikh and Professor J.S, Vinod, for their assistance, encouragement, support and mentoring. Secondly I would like to thank outdos student, Soledad Mashiri for assisting me with the testing phase and helping me to understand several in-depth concepts within the calculation components.





I would also like to thank the laboratory technical officers and staff from the Wollongong Engineering Laboratories, particularly Ian Laird and chase Rowland, who trained me on each apparatus and assisted me with every enquiries and problems I encountered while testing.

Finally, I would like to thank my spouse Melanie, mother Dianne, father Peter and brother Robert for their continued emotional, motivational and financial support during the course of this Thesis and the rest of my degree.

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