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IGNIS

Reuse of Tyre Fibres for Fire-Spalling-Proof Concrete

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Project "IGNIS" data sheet

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Coordinator	THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Organization address address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK city: SHEFFIELD postcode: S10 2TN website: www.shef.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	United Kingdom [UK]
Project website	https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/ignis/home
Total cost	195˙454 €
EC max contribution	195˙454 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-07-01 to 2018-06-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD Organization address address: FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK city: SHEFFIELD postcode: S10 2TN website: www.shef.ac.uk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	UK (SHEFFIELD)	coordinator	195˙454.00

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Project objective

Fire-induced explosive spalling (violent peeling-off of concrete surface) is a major drawback of modern high-performance and high-strength concrete. Tunnels and buildings have been seen to experience catastrophic failure due to fire spalling of concrete, leading to huge economic costs and potential loss of life. Recent EU directives and legislation require adequate addressing of the spalling problem in any new project and all major existing road tunnels need to be upgraded. However, fire spalling still remains one of the least well understood aspects of concrete behaviour and the need to fill this knowledge gap has significantly increased, due to the increasing demand of infrastructure and materials that are sensitive to spalling. Therefore, the research community has set fire spalling as a research priority; a RILEM Technical Committee (TC256-SPF) has been dedicated to this topic. This research aims to develop a better understanding of the complex mechanism behind fire spalling as well as a novel sustainable spalling-mitigation solution by using waste fibres recovered from end-of-life tyres. If successful, this will enable manufactured polymer fibres, currently used to prevent fire-induced spalling, to be replaced with a reused product of equal or better performance, thereby providing a possible annual reduction of 0.5 million tonnes of CO2 in an EU market worth about £50 million per annum. The fire spalling risk will be investigated through high-temperature slab tests. The test data will be used to develop a predictive numerical model. The host organisation has world-leading expertise in the fields of fire engineering and sustainable concrete technology and it is current coordinating an EU project (ANAGENNISI) on the reuse of tyre components in concrete for ambient temperature applications. This project, along with training schemes available at the host organization, will be a unique opportunity for the fellow to develop his career as an independent researcher.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2017	Fabio Figueiredo Ieuan Rickard Asif Hussain Shah Shan-Shan Huang Harris Angelakopoulos Luke Bisby Ian Burgess Kypros Pilakoutas Recycled Tyre Polymer Fibres to Mitigate Heat-induced Spalling of Concrete published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:		2019-07-25
2017	Fabio P. Figueiredo, Asif Hussain Shah, Shan-Shan Huang, Harris Angelakopoulos, Kypros Pilakoutas, Ian Burgess Fire Protection of Concrete Tunnel Linings with Waste Tyre Fibres published pages: 472-478, ISSN: 1877-7058, DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.11.103	Procedia Engineering 210	2019-07-25
2017	Fabio P. Figueiredo Shan-Shan Huang Harris Angelakopoulos Kypros Pilakoutas Ian Burgess Mitigation of concrete spalling in fire using recycled fibres from waste tyres published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:		2019-07-25

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