1. Introduction
With the population growth and the continual urbanization, our
cities are being covered with the impervious surface areas such as
residential and commercial buildings. Because of the lack of water
and air permeability of the common concrete pavement, the storm
water is not filtered underground, the runoff is rapidly increased.
Therefore, the drainage system gets overloaded and flash flooding
becomes inevitably. In addition, with the impervious surface, it is
difficult for soil to exchange heat and moisture with air; therefore,
the temperature and humidity of the Earth’s surface cannot be
adjusted. This brings the phenomenon of greenhouse and hot
land effects in city. At the same time, the plash on the road during
a rainy day reduces the safety of traffic of vehicle and foot
passenger [1].
In civil engineering, the decrease of the ground water level can
cause subsidence of soil of several meters, deconstruct buildings,
structures and works.
Pervious concrete (PC) is a special type of concrete with
continuous porosity ranged from 15% to 35% and the presence of
interconnected large pores system allows the water flow easily
through the pervious concrete [2–6]. In recent decades, the use
of pervious concrete for the construction of secondary roads,
parking lots, driveways, walkways and sidewalks is increasing
continuously because of its various environmental benefits such
as [1–4]: