Production and Characterization of Artificial Stone for the Making of Permeable Pavement

In addition to the generation of industrial wasteWastes, especially in the ornamental stones sector, another problem caused by modernization which affects urban lifestyle and the environment is soil sealing. The loss of permeability leads in the surface to an increase in water runoff leading to floods, and through channels, to the transferring of these volumes to nearby water bodies leading to problems like silting up of rivers. The present work has the objective of producing permeable pavementPermeable pavement using gravel wasteWastes in an epoxyEpoxy resin matrix, and analyzing the feasibility of its use with the characterizationCharacterization of its properties. The slabs of permeable artificial stoneArtificial stone were developed with the graniteGranite gravel wasteWastes having a granulometry between 10 and 20 mm. The characterizationCharacterization was made for porosity evaluation through water immersion, determination of the permeability coefficient and mechanical propertyMechanical properties. The results were of an (11 ± 1.7)% void ratio of the artificial stoneArtificial stone, which indicates low porosity, and with a permeability coefficient of 2 mm/s the material can be utilized as a permeable pavementPermeable pavement. The maximum flexural strengthFlexural strength value of 4.26 ± 0.08 MPa, above the 2 MPa determined by the standard minimum, this parameter shows that this permeable pavementPermeable pavement made with artificial stoneArtificial stone has potential to be applied as tiling.