PERVIOUS / POROUS

CONCRETE

Guide name :- Submitted by :-

Sandeep Goyal Sir Advin Kujur
Chandini Ramteke
Nitin Sahu
Rupanshi Rathod
Devesh Joshi
 About Pervious concrete
 Pervious concrete is a mixture of cement, water, and coarse
aggregate, and little to no sand. It also frequently contains chemical
admixtures. Pervious concrete creates a very porous medium that
allows water to drain to the underlying soils.

By allowing rain events to penetrate the pavement to the underlying

soils, the first flush of the paved surface is contained on site. The
natural infiltration of the area remains unchanged so the water can
recharge the water table. This avoids surface runoff that must be held
in detention ponds or added to the storm water surface runoff, which
must then be treated before it is returned to the local streams. In many
cases the pavement may also be designed with a layer of coarse
granular material below the pavement to increase the storage
potential of the system. This has proven to be an effective tool to
increase the area of usable pavement on a project as well as satisfy
local water management regulations.
 Pervious concrete consists of cement, coarse aggregate and water with
little to no fine aggregates. The addition of a small amount of sand will
increase the strength. The mixture has a water-to-cement ratio of 0.28 to
0.40 with a void content of 15 to 25 percent.
 The correct quantity of water in the concrete is critical. A low water to
cement ratio will increase the strength of the concrete, but too little
water may cause surface failure. A proper water content gives the
mixture a wet-metallic appearance.
 Pervious concrete can improve water quality by capturing the “first flush”
of surface runoff, reduce temperature rise in receiving waters, increase
base flow, and reduce flooding potential. The pavement creates a short-
term storage detention of rainfall. In order to fully utilize these benefits, the
hydrological behavior of the pervious concrete system must be assessed.
The hydrological performance is usually a key parameter in decisions to
use this material as a best management practice (BMP) for storm water
management and is the characteristic of most interest to permit-granting
agencies.
 Pervious concrete is traditionally used in parking areas, areas with
light traffic, residential streets, pedestrian walkways,
and greenhouses. It is an important application
for sustainable construction and is one of many low impact
development techniques used by builders to protect water quality.
 Timeline
 Commencement of the project on 25th September 2019. Before heading to
standard provisions we made some modification ( usage of ordinary
aggregates ) to check out the feasibility of the specimen.
 Basically , with all provisions we made our very first specimens with normal
aggregates and after cube casting we left the half of the specimens for 4
days of curing and others for 7 days of curing.
 On 30th of September (Monday), we will perform the compressive strength
and porosity test of 4 days cured specimen and on 3rd of October , the
strength test of 7 days cured cube will be performed.
 Simultaneously , on 3rd October we will cast another batch of concrete cubes
by using pea gravels this time. Every batch consists of 8 cubes , half of them
will be cured for 4 days and other half will be for 7days .