TY - GEN

T1 - Using travertine as pervious pavements to control urban-flooding and storm water quality

AU - Rahimi, H. R.

AU - Tang, X.

AU - Singh, P. K.

AU - Rahimi, S.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, London.

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Mineral rock of Travertine can be used as pervious pavement systems. Travertine is suitable for low traffic loads and has the capability of acting as the drainage system. Travertine, as a ‘spongy’ material, allows water to pass through surface and get into the underlying course and permeable sub-base where the water is stored and released slowly into the sub-grade. This paper studies the quantity and quality of infiltrated water indicating that Travertine can reduce the amount of runoff as well as pollution from runoff when water passes through the underlying course and sublayer material. The results are useful for designers to control surface runoff and provide a reference criterion for sustainable design in Travertine pavement via the comparison between total volumes of rainfall and real storage capacity in Travertine pavement.

AB - Mineral rock of Travertine can be used as pervious pavement systems. Travertine is suitable for low traffic loads and has the capability of acting as the drainage system. Travertine, as a ‘spongy’ material, allows water to pass through surface and get into the underlying course and permeable sub-base where the water is stored and released slowly into the sub-grade. This paper studies the quantity and quality of infiltrated water indicating that Travertine can reduce the amount of runoff as well as pollution from runoff when water passes through the underlying course and sublayer material. The results are useful for designers to control surface runoff and provide a reference criterion for sustainable design in Travertine pavement via the comparison between total volumes of rainfall and real storage capacity in Travertine pavement.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108920185&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1201/9781003000716-10

DO - 10.1201/9781003000716-10

M3 - Conference Proceeding

AN - SCOPUS:85108920185

SN - 9780367430191

T3 - Sustainable Buildings and Structures: Building a Sustainable Tomorrow - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in Sustainable Buildings and Structures, ICSBS 2019

SP - 81

EP - 87

BT - Sustainable Buildings and Structures

A2 - Papadikis, Konstantinos

A2 - Chin, Chee S.

A2 - Galobardes, Isaac

A2 - Gong, Guobin

A2 - Guo, Fangyu

PB - CRC Press/Balkema

T2 - 2nd International Conference in Sustainable Buildings and Structures, ICSBS 2019

Y2 - 25 October 2019 through 27 October 2019

ER -