The combined influence of mineralogical, hygric and thermal properties on the durability of porous building stones

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 673-685

  Benavente, David ^a,b   Cultrone, Giuseppe ^c   Gómez Heras, Miguel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clay minerals; Durability test; Hygric dilatation; Stone decay; Thermal expansion

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MATERIALS; CLAY MINERALS; DECAY (ORGANIC); THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BUILDING STONE; DECAY FACTOR; DECAY PROCESS; DURABILITY TEST; HYGRIC DILATATION; STONE DECAY; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TEST BUILDINGS;

DURABILITY;

BUILDING STONE; CLAY MINERAL; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DILATION; DURABILITY; MINERALOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMAL EXPANSION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

EID: 51949099913     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2008/0020-1850     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (46)

1. Aires Barros, K. (2002): Modes and mechanisms of rock weathering. in "Protection and conservation of the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean cities", Galán, Zezza, eds. Balkema Publishers, 3-9.
2. Anon., (1999): Métodos de ensayo para piedra natural. Determinación de la resistencia a la compresión. UNE-EN 1926.
3. Arpon, R., Molina, J.M., Saravanan, R.A., Garcia-Cordovilla, C., Louis, E., Narciso, J. (2003): Thermal expansion behaviour of aluminium/SiC composites with bimodal particle distributions. Acta Mater, 51, 3145-3156.
4. Benavente, D., Lock, P., Garcia-del-Cura, M.A., Ordóñez, S. (2002): Predicting the capillary imbibition of porous rocks from microstructure. Transport Porous Med., 49, 59-76.
5. Benavente, D., Cueto, N., Martínez-Martínez, J., García-del-Cura, M.A., Cañaveras, J.C. (2007a): Influence of petrophysical properties on the salt weathering of porous building rocks. Environ. Geol., 52, 197-206.
6. Benavente, D., Martínez-Martínez, J., Cueto, N., García-del-Cura, M.A. (2007b): Salt weathering in dual-porosity building dolostones. Eng. Geol., 94, 215-226.
7. Bruton, G. (1955): Vapour glycolation. Am. Mineral., 40, 124-126.
8. Christensen, N.I. (1990): Seismic velocities. in "Practical handbook of physical properties of rocks and minerals", R.S. Carmichael, ed. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 429-546.
9. Delgado Rodrigues, J. (2001): Evaluación del comportamiento expansivo de las rocas y su interés en conservación. Mater. Construcc., 51, 183-195.
10. Dullien, F.A.L., El-Sayed, M.S., Batra, V.K. (1977): Rate of capillary rise in porous media with nonuniform pores. J Colloid Interf. Sci., 60, 497-506.
11. Eeckhout, E.M. (1976): The mechanisms of strength reduction due to moisture in coal mine shales. Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci. Geomech. Abstr., 13, 61-67.
12. Fort, R., Bemabéu, A., García-del-Cura, M.A., De Azcona, M.C., Ordóñez, S., Mingarro, F. (2002): Novelda Stone: widely used within the Spanish architectural heritage. Mater. Construcc., 52, 19-32.
13. Franzini, M., Leoni, L., Lezzerini, M., Cardelli, R. (2007): Relationship between mineralogical composition, water absorption and hygric dilatation in the "Macigno" sandstones from Lunigiana (Massa, Tuscany). Eur. J. Mineral., 19, 113-123.
14. Garrecht, H., Hörenbaum, W., Müller, H.S. (1996): Untersuchungen zur Schädigung von witterungsbeanspruchtem Mauerwerk und Folgerungen für die Bausanierung. in "Proc. 4. Internationales Kolloquium Werkstoffwissenschaften und Bauinstandsetzung", F. H. Wittmann, & A. Gerdes, eds. Esslingen, Germany, 847-860.
15. Gómez-Heras, M. (2006): Procesos y formas de deterioro térmico en piedra natural del patrimonio arquitectonico, UCM, Servicio de Publicaciones, Madrid, http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/tesis/geo /ucm-t28551.pdf. Last access 15/10/07.
16. Gómez-Heras, M., Smith, B.J., Fort, R. (2006): Surface temperature differences between minerals in crystalline rocks: implications for granular disaggregation of granites through thermal fatigue. Geomorphology, 78, 236-249.
17. Gómez-Heras, M. & Fort, R. (2007): Patterns of halite (NaCl) crystallisation in building stone conditioned by laboratory heating regimes. Environ. Geol., 52, 239-247.
18. Guéguen, Y. & Palciauskas, V. (1994): Introduction to the physics of rock, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
19. Halsey, D.P., Mitchell, D.J., Dews, S.J. (1998): Influence of climatically induced cycles in physical weathering. Q. J. Eng. Geo., 31, 359-367.
20. Hammecker, C. & Jeannette, D. (1994): Modelling the capillary imbibition kinectics in sedimentary rocks: role of petrographical featrures. Transport Porous Med., 17, 285-303.
21. Hower, J. (1961): Some factors concerning the nature and origin of glauconite. Am. Mineral., 46, 313-334.
22. Jiménez-González, I. & Scherer, G.W. (2004): Effect of swelling inhibitors on the swelling and stress relaxation of clay bearing stones. Environ. Geol., 46, 364-377.
23. Jiménez-González, I., Rodríguez-Navarro, C., Scherer, G.W. (2008): The role of clay minerals in the physico-mechanical deterioration of ornamental stone. J. Geophys. Res. - Earth Surf. doi: 10.1029/2007JF000845.
24. Koch, A. & Siegesmund, S. (2004): The combined effect of moisture and temperature on the anomalous expansion behaviour of marble. Environ. Geol., 46, 350-363.
25. Kühnel, R.A. (2002): Driving forces of rock degradation. in "Protection and conservation of the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean cities" Galán, Zezza, eds. Balkema Publishers, 11-17.
26. Martín Ramos, J.D. (2004): XPowder, a software package for powder X-ray diffraction analysis. Legal Deposit GR 1001/04.
27. McCabe, S., Smith, B.J., Warke, P.A. (2007a): Preliminary observations on the impact of complex stress histories on sandstone response to salt weathering: laboratory simulations of process combinations. Environ. Geol., 52, 269-276.
28. McCabe, S., Smith, B.J., Warke, P.A. (2007b): Sandstone response to salt weathering following simulated fire damage: a comparison of the effects of furnace heating and fire. Earth Surf. Proc. Land., 32, 1874-1883.
29. Moore, D.M. & Reynolds, R.C. (1989): X-ray diffraction and the identification and analysis of clay minerals. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 322p.
30. Mosquera, M.J., Rivas, T., Prieto, B., Silva, B. (2000): Capillary rise in granitic rocks: interpretation of kinetics on the basis of pore structure. J. Colloid Interf. Sci., 222, 41-45.
31. Molina, J.M., Narciso, J., Weber, L., Mortensen, A., Louis, E. (2008): Thermal conductivity of A1-SiC composites with monomodal and bimodal particle size distribution. Mat. Sci. Eng. A - Struct., 480, 483-488.
32. Nicholson, D.T. (2001): Pore properties as indicators of breakdown mechanisms in experimentally weathered limestones. Earth Surf. Proc. Land., 26, 819-838.
33. Olivier, H.J. (1979): New engineering-geological rock durability classification. Eng. Geol., 14, 255-279.
34. Pejon, O.J. & Zuquette, L.V (2002): Analysis of cyclic swelling of mudrocks. Eng. Geol., 67, 97-108.
35. Price, C.A. (1996): Stone conservation. An overview of current research, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles.
36. Prikryl, R., Svobodová, J., Zák, K., Hradil, D. (2004): Anthropogenic origin of salt crusts on sandstone sculptures of Prague's Charles Bridge (Czech Republic): evidence of mineralogy and stable isotope geochemistry. Eur. J. Mineral., 16, 609-618.
37. Sanchez-Moral, S., Luque, L., Cuezva, S., Soler, V, Benavente, D., Laiz, L., Gonzalez, J.M., Saiz-Jimenez, C. (2005): Deterioration of building materials in Roman catacombs: the influence of visitors. Sci. Total. Environ., 349, 260-276.
38. Seedsman, R.W. (1993): Comprehensive rock engineering. in "Characterizing Clay Shales", vol. 3, John A. Hudson, ed. Pergamon Press, Australia, chapter 7, 151-164.
39. Sebastián, E., Cultrone, G., Benavente, D., Linares, L., Elert, K., Rodríguez-Navarro, C. (2008): Swelling damage in clay-rich sandstones used in the church of San Mateo in Tarifa (Spain). J. Cult. Herit., 9, 66-76.
40. Smith, B.J. (1977): Rock temperature measurements from the northwest Sahara and their implications for rock weathering. Catena, 4, 41-63,
41. Smith, B.J., Turkington, A.V., Warke, P.A., Basheer, P.A.M., McAlister, J.J., Meneely, J., Curran, J.M. (2002): Modelling the rapid retreat of building sandstones: a case study from a polluted maritime environment. in "Natural stone, weathering phenomena, conservation strategies and case studies", S. Siegesmund, T.N. Weiss, A. Vollbrecht, eds. Geological Society Special Publication, Geological Soc Publishing House, Bath, 347-362.
42. Tiab, D. & Donaldson, E.C. (1996): Petrophysics: theory and practice of measuring reservoir rock and fluid transport properties, Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas.
43. Veniale, F., Setti, M., Rodríguez-Navarro, C., Lodola, S. (2001): Role of clay constituents in stone decay processes. Mater. Construcc., 51, 163-182.
44. Warke, P.A. & Smith, B.J. (2000): Salt distribution in clay-rich weathered sandstone. Earth Surf. Proc. Land., 25, 1333-1342.
45. Weiss, T., Siegesmund, S., Kirchner, D., Sippel, J. (2004): Insolation weathering and hygric dilatation: two competitive factors in stone degradation. Environ. Geol., 46, 402-413.
46. Zimmerman, R.W. & Bodvarsson, G. (1991): A simple approximate solution for horizontal infiltration in a Brooks-Corey medium. Transport Porous Med., 6, 195-205.