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The applications and benefits of using pervious concrete are immense and include everything from the common stormwater mitigation to more uncommon applications such as permafrost mitigation. This chapter will discuss the fundamental properties and behaviors of pervious concrete to provide background for future designs. Since stormwater management is covered in detail in the permeable pavements chapter, this chapter will discuss the aspects and applications unique to pervious concrete.

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  1. Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, School of Computing and Engineering, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA

    John T. Kevern

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  1. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA

    Kasthurirangan Gopalakrishnan

  2. Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Eng., Built Environment & IT, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Wynand JvdM Steyn

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA

    John Harvey

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Kevern, J.T. (2014). Pervious Concrete. In: Gopalakrishnan, K., Steyn, W., Harvey, J. (eds) Climate Change, Energy, Sustainability and Pavements. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44719-2_8

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