Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Porous Concrete Pavement for Low Traffic Volume Roads and Heavy Rainfall Region

Abstract

Porous concrete is also known as Pervious Concrete or Permeable Concrete. Pervious concrete pavements are permeable that provide runoff control while serving as the wearing course for low-traffic volume roads, parking lots, walk/bike pathways and other applications like residential roads, alleys and driveways, shoulders & medians, under overpasses.This paper describes the experimental evaluation of M30 grade porous concrete pavement reinforced with metallic and non metallic fibres. Fiber can be the effective material to improve the properties of the porous concrete. Fibre reinforced specimen having different proportion is used for evaluation and investigation. In this paper the strength of compressive strength, split tensile strength and flexural strength is evaluated. In this project work steel fibre (0.25%, 0.50%, 0.75%, 1%, 1.25%, and 1.50%) and polyester fibre (0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%, and 0.6%) of different proportion by the weight of cement is used. The structural behavior of fibre reinforced porous concrete pavement is compared with normal pavement made by porous concrete.