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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PROPERTIES OF PERVIOUS

CONCRETE FOR PAVEMENTS USING FLYASH

Ch.Naresh kumar1 , D.Vijaya2

Student ACE Engineering College1, Assistant professor , ACE Engineering College2

ABSTRACT

Pervious concrete, sometimes referred to as no-fines, gap-graded, permeable, or enhanced porosity concrete, is an innovative approach
to controlling, managing, and treating stormwater runoff. When used in pavement applications, pervious concrete can effectively capture and
store stormwater runoff, thereby allowing the runoff to percolate into the ground and recharge groundwater supplies. 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. In the present study M20 pervious concrete is designed by ACI522R-10 design code. In this study the fine aggregate is used in various
proportions such as 0 % , 10 % in the mix and cement is replaced partially about 30 % by flyash and the variation in the properties are studied.
Properties such as compressive strength, split tensile strength are studied for M20 grade by considering the w/c ratio as 0.34.

Key words : Pervious Concrete , Fine Aggregate , FlyAsh , Strength Properties

INTRODUCTION

As urbanization increases in India and many parts of the world the problem of water logging and requirement of drainage is also
increase. This is partly due to impervious nature of the bituminous and concrete pavements. Pervious concrete which has an open cell helps
significantly to provide high permeability due to its interconnected pores. Pervious concrete (also called porous concrete, permeable concrete
and no fines concrete) is a special type of Concrete with a high porosity used for concrete flatwork applications that allows water from
precipitation and other sources to pass directly through, thereby reducing the runoff from a site and allowing groundwater recharge. Pervious
concrete is made using large aggregates with little to no fine aggregates. Some of the special concretes are pervious concrete, transparent
concrete, high volume fly ash concrete, self compacted and curing concrete because of their special properties which is better compared to
conventional concrete. Therefore it is a mixture of Portland cement, uniform coarse aggregate, with both a small amount of or without fine
aggregate and water. Appropriate amounts of water and cementitious material are employed to create a paste that forms a thin coat around
aggregate particles but leaves free spaces between them. Thus, pores are formed in the pervious materials. Water/cement ratios between 0.27
and 0.30 are used routinely with proper inclusion of chemical admixtures and those as high as 0.34 to 0.40 have been used successfully.

LITERATURE REVIEW
Tennis et. al. (1) studied the workability parameter and he recommended that workability for pervious concrete should be assessed by forming a
ball with the hand to established mouldability.

M.Uma Maguesvaria and V.L. Narasimha (2) studied the influence of fine aggregate and coarse aggregate quantities on the properties of
pervious concrete by considering w/c ratio as 0.34 and aggregate cement ratio as 4.75:1. Fine aggregate was replaced with coarse aggregate in
the range of 50 - 100 % by weight. Various mechanical properties of the mixes were evaluated.Finally a relationship between the strength,
abrasion resistance, permeability and total void present in aggregate based on angularity number has been developed.

Ghaffori and Shivaji Dutta (3) studied the physical and engineering characteristics of no fines concrete for various concrete mixtures under
various compaction energies. They reported that strength properties mainly depends upon the mixture proportions and compaction energies.They
also reported that when the aggregate to cement ratio was increased, the compressive strength of pervious concrete was decreased.

Praveenkumar Patil and Santosh M Murnal (4) studied the effect of w/c ratio and aggregate size on the strength properties of pervious
concrete. The property of pervious concrete by replacing cement by fly ash is also studied. They reported that the compressive strength of
pervious concrete increases as the water/cement ratio decreases up to optimum w/c ratio of 0.38 and with increase in volume of paste. The
optimum replacement of cement by fly ash is found to be 20 % in the study.

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JCI (7) presents some standards and formula for determining Void Content and Density of Hardened pervious concrete.

OBJECTIVES OF STUDY
To study the variation in properties of pervious concrete for pavements by using flyash . The study is carried out with variation in
fine aggregate percentages(0%,10% ).

MATERIALS
CEMENT: Ordinary Portland cement of 53grade of ultratech having specific gravity of 2.9 was used in the investigation. The cement used has
been tested for various physical properties and found to be confirming to various specifications as per IS:12269-2013.

COARSE AGGREGATE: Crushed aggregate of 20mm and 10mm produced from local crushing plants were used. The aggregates were tested
for their physical and chemical requirements such as gradation, specific gravity, bulk density etc in accordance with IS:2386-1963.

FINE AGGREGATE: The locally available sand is used as fine aggregate in the present investigation. The sand is tested for various properties
like specific gravity, bulk density and water absorption etc.

WATER: Locally available water is used and the water to cement ratio is taken as 0.34 for the study.
FLY ASH: Flyash is replaced by about 30% by cement

MIX DESIGN
Mix design is carried out based on ACI 522 R10. Table 1 gives the quanties of material required for 1 m3 of pervious concrete. Table
2 gives the mix proportion ratio which is used for the study.

Table 1 : Quantities of Material required per 1 m3 of Pervious Concrete ( Without FlyAsh)

Quantities of Material required per 1 m3 of Pervious Concrete (WithFlyAsh)

s.no % of fine w/c ratio Cement Fine aggregate(kg) Coarse Water

aggregate (kgs) aggregate (litres)
(kg)

1 0 0.34 285 0 1497.2 96.9

2 10 0.34 285 159.69 1405.78 96.9

s.no % of fine w/c Cement Fly Ash Fine aggregate(kg) Coarse Water
aggregate ratio (kgs) (kgs) aggregate (litres)
(kg)

1 0 0.34 199.5 85.5 0 1497.2 96.9

2 10 0.34 199.5 85.5 159.69 1405.78 96.9

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Table 2: MIX PROPORTION FOR VARIOUS MIXES

MIX PROPORTION (Without Flyash) PROPORTION (With Flyash)
( cement : fine ggregate: coarse aggregate) ( cement : Flyash: fine ggregate: coarse aggregate)
0% Fine Aggregate 1: 0: 5.2 1:0.43:0:7.5
10% Fine 1: 0.5: 4.9 1:0.43:0.5:4.9
Aggregate

RESULTS
COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH:

No of days % of Fine Aggregate Without FlyAsh With FlyAsh

7 0 10.99 9.75
Compressive 7 10 17.18 10.96
Strength 28 0 16.58 13.18
(N/ mm 2) 28 10 28.72 16.06

SPLIT TENSILE STRENGTH :

No of days % of Fine Aggregate Without FlyAsh With FlyAsh

7 0 0.61 0.86
Split Tensile 7 10 1.45 1.25
Strength 28 0 1.02 1.35
(N/ mm 2) 28 10 1.79 1.75

CONCLUSIONS

1. Mix design is based on ACI522 R10.

2. Compressive and split tensile strength increases with increase in percentage of fine aggregate.
3. Compressive and split tensile strength got decreased whenever flyash is replaced by cement.
4. As the curing days increases we may get the strength properties.

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