Abstract
For the over populated cities, the use of a permeable pavement is considered to be efficient in environmental engineering, for example, inprovement of living environment, prevention of urban disaster and so on. Not with standing those social needs, the present permeable pavements are built mainly of an asphalt paving and their applications are limited to pedestrian walks and light traffic roads. In this paper the mechanical properties of permeable pavements applicable to heavy traffic roads were studied and a fiber reinforced permeable cement concrete pavements with stainless steel was developed with the aim of improving its bending strength and toughness. For purposes of its practical use, a field test was carried out based on the results of several laboratory examinations. The permeable plain concrete pavement was constructed in order to compare with the steel reinforced one.
Results of the investigation for 18 months after construction showed that the steel reinforced pavament was superior in bending strength, toughness, crack restriction to the plain one. As a conclusion, a new type of permeable pavement for vehicle trafficked roads was proposed using a roller compaction method. The design method, high cost, upkeep of porosity remained for the future discussion.
