Mehrnoosh Feizy - M.Sc. Student, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
Ali Mirzaii - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

This paper represents the results of an experimental study on the effectiveness of a soil-rubber mixture wave barrier to reduce ground vibrations. To this end, the in-filled trenches were constructed by means of mixing of a sand soil with a range of rubber mixtures to isolate a 2D three story steel frame against the ground vibrations transmitted by a mechanical device inside a small-scale laboratory box. Accordingly, the optimum condition associated to the soil-rubber mixture was determined, and it was used to examine the influence of barrier wall thickness and depth in isolating the ground vibrations

Reduction Ratio, Wave Barrier, Vibration Isolation, Ground Vibration, Soil-Rubber Mixture