Development of Porous Paving Concretes Produced with Transparent Binders

Present thesis is focused on the study of the features and its binding properties and other physical and mechanical properties of an innovative binder, which has low environmental visual impact named as ‘Evizero’, and its hypothetical employment in the construction of road pavement. As the new road pavements design is focused on innovative solutions, that refer to a new school of thoughts where priorities have changes during the last decades. This phenomenon can be described as the advent of the context and sensitive design, that attempts to raise these new criteria then compare to the primary level. This newly innovated transparent eco-friendly binder Evizero (Environmental Visual Impact-Zero) which can be a alternative to the traditional bituminous mixtures has been introduced for making porous pavement. And aggregates used are natural white aggregates from Ancona, Italy. porous pavement which has a hardscaping surface that flows water to flow through it. This differs from traditional types of pavement, which are impermeable and convert most rainfall to runoff. It can be installed as individual concrete pavers or in connected sections. Initially to get an optimum binder content tests (ITS and Air void contents) have been performed on specimens made with two different grading distributions separately. And then with the derived optimum binder content experimental tests (ITS,ITSR,ITSM,Skid resistance, cantabro test) are been performed and obtained its physical, mechanical and texture characteristics. and the obtained results are in their limiting range as per their standards.