ABSTRACT
Pervious pavements are similar to conventional pavements with no fine or little content of fine aggregate. Pervious pavements are considered as sustainable pavements as it controls storm water runoff, mitigate urban heat island effect. The construction of pervious concrete pavement on soft soil subgrade is not feasible unless subgrade soil specially treated with some strengthening material. Geocell is a three-dimensional geosynthetic product that is a promising material to reinforce the soil, there are no prominent studies in the past on application of geocell in the pervious concrete pavement. The present research is focused on the pervious concrete pavement performance using geocell base under the static loading. The series of static plate load tests on geocell reinforced and unreinforced pervious pavements as per the Indian Road Congress standards. The test results have shown that the vertical deformation, was reduced when the pavement is reinforced with geocell.
