Fibre Reinforced Pervious Concrete Using Banana Fibre

Pervious concrete is a composite material consisting of coarse aggregate, Portland cement and water. It is different from conventional concrete in that it contains no fine aggregate in the mixture. The result is a concrete with high percentage of interconnected voids that, when functioning correctly permits the rapid percolation of water through the concrete. Pervious concrete is used in parking areas, residential streets, pedestrians ’walkways etc. It is an important application for sustainable construction. The project aims at studying the engineering properties and prove the importance of banana fibre reinforced pervious concrete in ground. Tests like compression test, split tensile strength test and permeability tests are carried out on test specimens with different percentages of banana fibres and the properties will compared with that of plain pervious concrete samples.