PERMEABLE STORM DRAIN

Chapter 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, materials, mixture design, and other test and procedures for making the

permeable storm drain will be present.

Materials

Pervious concrete, mainly consists of the usual Portland cement, water and coarse

aggregates (either single-sized coarse or grading between 19 and 9.5 mm). It also

contains a paste to fill the voids.

The mixture will possibly give us a porosity of concrete ranging from 15 to 40%. Typical

Pervious concrete mix designs used in the United States consists of cement, single-sized

coarse aggregate, and a water to cement.

Mixture Design

For testing to fully analyze pervious concrete, a broad range of void contents will be

tested. To achieve this goal a broad range of concrete mixtures were designed by void

content. Several mixtures will place and analyze, and those mixtures will selected for

further testing. The initial mixture utilized different compaction techniques to achieve

various void contents.

To fill out the range of void contents mixture designs utilizing higher paste contents will

be investigated. The additional amount of paste created lower voids. Several mixtures

were placed utilizing different amounts of paste, with varying results.

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Several of the mixture designs utilizing additional amounts of paste were too fluid and

not pervious enough for testing. With higher paste pervious concrete designs there is a

chance that the paste will separate from the mixture.

Void Content

Hardened void content and unit weight will be determined according to ASTM C1754

(ASTM C1754 2012). The basic principles and calculations in ASTM C1754 were

modified to allow for the testing of void content on the pervious concrete. Hardened

void content is determined by weighing the samples submerged in water and then dried.

The modifications to ASTM C1754 included modified techniques to obtain the

submerged weight of the concrete blocks.

Infiltration

Infiltration of the samples will be tested with accordance of ASTM C1701 (ASTM 2009).

ASTM C1701 is performed by determining the time a specified amount of water takes to

infiltrate the sample. The water is poured onto the sample in a ring with a

predetermined area, from the area of the ring and the time the water takes to infiltrate

the sample, the infiltration rate can be calculated. The procedure for infiltration testing

is considered a constant head test, were a predetermined weight of water is introduced

into the samples at a constant rate.