Abstract:To quantitatively evaluate the impact of rainfall intensity on the ability of permeable asphalt mixtures (PAM) to purify the pavement runoff, the artificial rainfall simulation tests of the single-layer and double-layer PAM under five rainfall intensities are designed according to the erected full-scale road pavement platform to detect the representative pollutant concentrations of the simulated runoff rainwater before and after flowing through PAM. The results show that PAM can effectively purify the runoff pollution, and the pollution purifying capacity of double-layer PAM is significantly better than that of single-layer PAM. The removal rates of suspended solids (SS), total phosphorus compounds (TP), heavy metal zinc (Zn), heavy metal plumbum (Pb), total nitrogen compounds (TN) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) by PAM are 80.25%, 74.13%, 70.30%, 65.14%, 63.75% and 61.38% respectively. With the increase of rainfall intensity, the purification capacity of PAM to runoff pollutants is gradually weakened. The layer coefficient α and rainfall intensity reduction coefficient β are proposed by analyzing the impact of layer coefficient and rainfall intensity on the pollutant purifying rate of PAM. The pollutant purifying capacity of the actual PAM pavement under certain of rainfall intensity can be calculated by the test results of artificial rainfall simulation, which provides the basis for the quantitative environmental evaluation of PAM pavement.