Investigating the Important Factors of Use and Replacement of Thirsty Concrete Materials in Urban Development

Abstract

Introduction Porous, permeable, no-fines concrete is some of the names of the thirsty concrete. The permeable pavement is a kind of concrete with lots of holes and empty spaces inside and it should be used in the flat works that let the precipitations and other surface waters pass (Zhong & Wille 2016). The 20 to 30 percent empty spaces in this kind of concrete has made it different from the kinds of concrete. In addition, this criterion has made it to have the ability to let 880 gallons per minute to pass up to 36000 millimeters of water per hour (Tarmac.com 2019). By having this information using this material over the common and traditional kind of concrete and material, the accidents related to the running water can be prevented, also by using the pervious concrete the ground water and fresh storage can be enriched. A great kind of storm can be handled every century if the traditional concrete has the potential to penetrate the water to the ground with the criteria of letting 300 mm of water per hour to the ground due to the information from Tarmac.com. Due to the existing information, hard materials have caused problems for nature, and using thirsty concrete has shown that water sources could be preserved much better compare to materials that are used normally. Also in the rainy areas, the thirsty concrete helps the water cycle and preventing the surface running waters to cause damage. Also by applying a decent drainage system the drained surface water that has high speed and causes financial stress, can be a long lasting solution. So that in this study it is tried to find solutions for the old, recent and future buildings in the expansion of the urban designs by the help of the thirsty concrete. 2. General Problem With the advent of urbanization and the need for massive construction, the use of building materials and urban development has expanded, which has reduced the natural soil in cities and covered the ground with impermeable

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“…Concrete made with recycled glass (Abellán-García et al, 2019) Roofs based on multilayer cement (Angelotti et al, 2018) Thirsty concrete capable of absorbing a large volume of water (Atakara & Ramezani, 2020) Materials based on natural fiber from Phaseolus vulgaris (Babu et al, 2019) Bricks based on marble paste and laminated steel scale (Baghel et al, 2019) Palm bark fly ash as asphalt concrete additives (Chaira & Mawardi, 2019) Wire-bent wood and glass composite elements (Nicklisch et al, 2018) Ceramic bricks made with olive pomace (López-García et al, 2021) Melt shop slag and blast furnace granulate as an alternative for fine aggregates (Sudarshan et al, 2021) Concrete beams with bamboo reinforcement to increase earthquake resistance (Hidayat & Aldo, 2020) Concrete embedded with e-waste (Gajalakshmi, 2017) Superabsorbent polymers in cementitious matrices with reduced carbon footprint (Weinand, 2020) Hemp-based sound-absorbing building materials (Fernea et al, 2017) Nano-silica as a concrete additive (Pragadeeshwaran & Sattainathan Sharma, 2019) Thermal insulating material made with residual fibers from peas (Soto et al, 2020) Structural magnesium oxide insulating panels (P. Li et al, 2018) Source: elaborated by the authors…”