Vol. 02 (01), December, 2021, pp. 40-45
STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOURAL PROPERTIES OF PERVIOUS CONCRETE
Abstract
Pervious concrete is a form of lightweight porous concrete, obtained by eliminating the sand from the normal concrete mix. The advantages of this type of concrete are lower density, lower cost due to lower cement content, lower thermal conductivity, relatively low drying shrinkage, no segregation and capillary movement of water. It has better insulating characteristics than conventional concrete because of the presence of large voids. The effect of w/c ratio and aggregate size on the strength of pervious concrete are studied. The property of pervious concrete by replacing cement by fly ash is also studied. It is revealed that the compressive strength increases as the water/cement ratio decreases up to optimum w/c ratio and with increase in volume of paste. It is observed that cement can be effectively replaced by fly ash which reduces the cost of pervious concrete. Types of concrete that permits water to penetrate through it because of its high void or porosity is known as pervious concrete. These studies look into the impact of size of aggregate (20mm and 10mm), w/c ratio (0.32 & 0.28), super plasticizers (auramix 400 &conplastsp 430) and different percentage of fibre (i.e 1% & 2%) on the behavior of pervious concrete and were described the resemblance with 4 criteria: Compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, and permeability test. The result indicates that there is moderate increase in strength with decrease in w/c ratio from 0.32 to 0.28 & moreover super plasticizer (conplastsp 430) gives good strength.
Keywords
Pervious concrete, mix proportioning, compressivestrength,super plasticizer, permeability test, coefficient of permeability
