A Study of Water Recharge Through Porous Concrete
Journal Title: International Journal of Civil, Structural, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Research and Development (IJCSEIERD) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 5
Abstract
Porous concrete may be a special concrete form utilized in the development field, another name of it is thirsty concrete besides leaky concrete, no fines concrete and porous concrete. Water is an important constituent. In forest 80–90% of rain gets absorbed into ground in several quantum. In geographical area, the absorption falls to 10% of the world’s population continuous shift from rural to urban areas. Natural voidance systems are being replaced with waterresistant concrete that hinders the environment’s ability to empty rain. Pervious concrete includes cement, water and if needed, course masses, admixtures and different cementations constituents. As there aren't any fine masses utilized in the matrix of concrete, the content that is void is a lot of owing to high consistency. It's used for the applications of concrete level effort that enables water from precipitation or rain and various foundations to straight pass through. Thus, dropping the overflow from a location and allowing the recharge of water. Pervious concrete is historically utilized in parking zones, walk paths in which in garden and parks, zones with high traffic, residential streets, inexperienced house and pedestrian walkways, volley ball and basketball courts. This study deals with the comparison of flexural strength, compressive strength and porosity of concrete between porous concrete with no fine masses with replacement of cement into fly ash by 10%.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. N. Ravisankar, Dr. S. Balakumar
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- DOI 10.24247/ijcseierdoct20194
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