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A REVIEW PAPER ON AN EXPERIMENTAL

STUDY ON STRENGTH AND PROPERTIES OF
THIRSTY CONCRETE

Prof. Shilpi S. Bhuinyan1, Shreyance Luniya2, Mithila Mane3, Smit Modi4, Rushikesh Tapkir5
1
Assistant Professor,Civil Engineering Dept, Aissms Coe Pune, India
2,3,4,5
Student, Civil Engineering Dept, , Aissms Coe Pune, India

Abstract— Pervious concrete is a special high porosity The last century in the construction industry has
concrete used for flatwork applications that allows shown an increasing interest in pervious concrete,
water from precipitation and other sources to pass an environmentally friendly material. Although
through, thereby reducing the runoff from a site and
emphasis has been placed on the relationship
recharging ground water levels. Its void content
between compressive behaviour of conventional
ranges from 18 to 35% with compressive strengths of
2.74 to 27.56 MPa . Typically, pervious concrete has
pervious concrete and total porosity, not much
little or no fine aggregate and has just enough research has been carried out to characterize the
cementitious paste to coat the coarse aggregate relationship between compressive behaviour of
particles while preserving the interconnectivity of the pervious concrete with varied aggregate type and
voids. Pervious concrete is traditionally used in almost no research has been done using scrap
parking areas, areas with light traffic, pedestrian marble as aggregate. In this research cubes using
walkways, and greenhouses and contributes to different types of aggregate where casted for M40
sustainable construction.In this project we are using
grade of concrete in which aggregate size vary
scrap marble to make pervious concrete and also
from 4.75mm to 12.5 mm.
checking various parameters like permeability and
compressive strength with respect to different types of II.LITERATURE REVIEW
aggregate like angular, rounded, and flaky type.
Cubes made from all types of aggregate where casted Jing Yang(2003) showed in their paper that, a
and compressive strength test (at 7 and 28 days) along pervious concrete pavement material used for
with infiltration test (at 28 days) where carried out. roadway is introduced As aggregate size decreases
This project was successfully completed under the compressive strength increases while water
guidance of J. Kumar RMC plant PUNE. absorption decreases. Silica Fume and Super
I.INTRODUCTION plasticizer can be used to produce high strength and
good water penetrable pervious concrete. Samples
Our cities are being covered with building and the are tested for Compressive strength, Flexural
airproof concrete road more and more. In addition, strength, Split tensile strength, Abrasion resistance
the environment of city is far from natural. Because and freezing and thawing durability.Void
of the lack of water permeability and air percentage determines compressive strength and
permeability of the common concrete pavement, permeability of pervious concrete. Cement quality
the rainwater is not filtered underground. Without must be adjusted according to smaller size
constant supply of water to the soil, plants are aggregate to enhance strength. By using SF,SP and
difficult to grow normally. In addition, it is difficult organic polymer can enhance strength of pervious
for soil to exchange heat and moisture with air; concrete. But it is difficult to ensure relation
therefore, the temperature and humidity of the between them and water absorption.
Earth’s surface in large cities cannot be adjusted.
This brings the phenomenon of hot island in city. Ming-Gin Lee found that ability of Pervious
At the same time, the plash on the road during a concrete material to eliminate pollutants and purify
rainy day reduces the safety of traffic of vehicle water is effective in dilute sulphuric acid, artificial
and foot passenger. The pervious concrete seawater and motor oil tests. After flowing through
pavement possesses many advantages that pervious concrete pavement, a diluted sulfuric acid
improves city environment.

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solution (pH value 2.0) could dramatically increase matrix (HSM) and ultra-high strength matrix
its pH value to approximately 7.0. A pervious (UHSM). White cement was selected as a
concrete pavement system could greatly decrease constituent for the design of ultra-high strength
the content of an artificial seawater solution matrix due to its high amount of tricalcium silicate
(salinity 36%) to about 1%, and the oil content of (C3S) and dicalcium silicate (C2S), as well as its
motor oil combined with certain types of water low quantity of tricalcium aluminate (C3A). The
could also be significantly decreased to 1%. The compressive strength of pervious concrete was
study demonstrates that pervious concrete determined based on ASTM C39. The measured
pavement holds potential for environment effective porosity, useful for predicting the
conservation and hydrologic consideration. hydraulic conductivity, is smaller than total
porosity. Porosity is a necessary, but insufficient
Maguesvari says that due to impermeability of parameter, for predicting the compressive strength
impervious pavement surface and urbanization of pervious concrete. An increase in matrix strength
Ground water table reduces. Thirsty concrete is an linearly increases the compressive strength of
environment friendly material and identified for its pervious concrete within the range investigated
capability of draining water. Its area of application here. A decrease in aggregate size increases the
consist lower traffic roads, Pedestrian ways, strength of pervious concrete. The aggregate to
shoulders and parking areas Void in thirsty concrete binder ratio affects the strength of pervious
decreases with decrease in aggregate size and with concrete only through altering the total porosity.
increasing proportion of FA replacing CA. with Ivana Barišic(2018) said that the hydrologic and
decrease in size of CA compressive strength of mechanical properties of six mixtures of single-
concrete increases. Also replacing percentage of CA sized pervious concrete prepared with three
with FA increases compressive strength. This is due different types of aggregates were studied, it is
to increase in contact area. Flexural strength And concluded that the optimal aggregate type for
split tensile strength are increase with increase in preparing pervious concrete from the hydrologic
percentage of FA. Permeability decreases with point of view is diabase because of its sharp grain
decrease in aggregate size and increase in FA edges, which allow the water to pass smoothly
percentage. This study illustrates angularity number, through the pore system. However, noticed that a
which influence properties and behavior of pervious coarser aggregate fraction will result in better
concrete with fine aggregate and coarse aggregates. hydraulic and mechanical properties of pervious
However, the influence of angularity number on the concrete.
abrasion value of the pervious concrete could not be
established. B.V.R.Murthy says the objective of his work is to
improve compressive strength at which the strength
Arun H.(2016) found that water logging and achieves better permeability. The design mix is
reduction in ground water level are two main prepared for m25 consisting of 53 grade cement,
problems society is facing worldwide. Various two different sizes of coarse aggregate which are
methods and processes are implemented to resolve passing through 25mm I.S sieve size and retained
this problem. Thirsty concrete is one of the on 16mm I.S sieve size as s1 and aggregates
effective ways to reduce these problems. It not only passing through 10 mm and retained on 6mm
absorbs water but percolate water to soil beneath it. named as s2 were taken for this work river sand
In these, Effects are taken for increasing strength of and robo sand were selected as fine aggregate and
thirsty concrete by replacing mix ingredients. Here w/c ratio maintained as 0.35 in all the cases. In this
% of cement replace by nanosilica And % concrete present study the strength ofpervious concrete is
is replace by polypropylene. W/c ration is improved by adding 5% robo sand as Fine
considered in range 0.4-0.46. Mix ratio is aggregate and 100%(80%s1+20%s2) coarse
considered as 1:6. Concrete is made by dry mixing aggregate in the mix. The durability test results
followed by wet mixing. may help for further study whether the strength
varied or not.
Rui Zhong(2016) found that the three matrices are
designated in accordance to their strength as
normal strength matrix (NSM), high strength

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