Evolvement and future direction of research on use of waste tires in geo-engineering practice: a systematic literature review

Generation of waste tire increases with end-of its life. This scenario made the researchers to explore the feasibility of reusing and recycling the waste tire as an alternative material. Recent literatures mainly focus on the engineering properties of used tires alone or their behaviour when mixed with soil. To understand the research towards reuse/recycle of waste tire, a bibliometric study has been carried out to report a comprehensive and detailed bibliometric network mapping and evaluation of research progress connected to the utilization of used tires in geotechnical application. For the last two decades, it has been systematically documented through the Dimensions database. To understand the influence of publications, affiliations, journals, countries, authors, and keywords etc.in this field of research, the statistical analysis has been carried out. By using a bibliometric mapping tool, the evolving pattern of authors’ research themes and collaboration structures were examined. This bibliometric study findings revealed that there have been a significant number of publications and influence of authors to this studied topic in the recent two decades, as well as an increase in authors’ collaboration. Moreover, the objective is extended to explore the use of waste tire as geo-material to its use in geo-engineering practices.