Review on frost resistance and anti-clogging of pervious concrete

Pervious concrete is a special type of concrete that is of high porosity and contains no or a small amount of fine aggregate, and it is an important basic material for sponge city construction. The presence of a large number of connected pores inside pervious concrete leads to a marked difference in durability failure mechanism compared with that of ordinary concrete.

In this study, the frost resistance and anti-clogging of pervious concrete were introduced in detail, and the methods to improve their performance were summarized systematically. The cracking pattern of pervious concrete is influenced by geometric characteristics and three-dimensional morphological features of pores, resulting in its crack generation, development, and geometry being significantly different from those of ordinary concrete, thus leading to different freeze-thaw cycle mechanisms. In addition, due to its different pore structure compared to ordinary concrete, three types of clogging mechanisms, affecting the long-term permeability of pervious concrete were elaborated systematically (i.e., physical clogging, biological clogging, and chemical clogging). And the ways to improve the anti-clogging of pervious concrete are systematically presented from multiple perspectives. Finally, in order to broaden the engineering applications of pervious concrete, some research proposals are presented in this study.