What Is Pervious Concrete

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Pervious concrete is different from the conventional concrete. It is defined as “no fines concrete”. The pervious concrete mix contains very little or practically no fine aggregate. Pervious concrete which is also known as the no-fines, porous, gap graded, and porous concrete and enhance porosity concrete has been found to be a reliable storm water management tool. By definition, pervious concrete is a mixture of gravel or granite stone, cement, water, little to no sand (fine aggregate) with or without admixtures. When pervious concrete is used for paving (Figure 1), the open cell structures allow storm water to filter through the pavement and into the underlying soils. In other words, pervious concrete helps in protecting the surface of the pavement and its environment. The infiltration rate of pervious concrete will fall into the range 80 to 720 liters/minute/square meter. (Mr.V. R. Patil)

Figure 1: Pervious Concrete (Sources:http://www.tececo.com.au/images/photographs/ permecocrete/PerviousPavement.JPG)

Conventional normal cement concrete is normally used as construction material of buildings. The impervious nature of concrete …show more content…

Than pervious concrete is only for using in parking lots, street road, and drainage purpose not use in highway purpose.The research proposes to study the influence of coarse aggregate Investigate the properties of pervious concrete with and without fly ash and demolition waste. Due to rapid urbanization most of the places are covered with permeable surfaces like cement concrete. This has major impact on the ground water table. Pervious concrete is the effective way to minimize this issue. Pervious concrete is an open graded structure with inter-connected voids through which rain and storm water is permitted to percolate into the

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