Abstract
The freeze-thaw process is a weathering phenomenon that occurs in rocks and stones when water enters small cracks and pores within the stone. When the temperature drops below freezing, the water inside the rock expands as it freezes, exerting pressure on the rock from within. In this study the effect of freeze thaw on mechanical parameter uniaxial compression strength (UCS) and ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) of 47 oolitic samples were considered. At first, capillary absorption for cylindrical and prismatic oolitic samples were measured and then freeze-thaw experiment with 23 cycles were applied to the samples. UPV of samples before and after freeze-thaw was analysed by two ultrasonic devices including Geotron and Pundit. It was observed that freeze thaw decreases primary velocity (Vp) and secondary velocity (Vs) by around 20 and 7% respectively. However, average UCS of 1.6 MPa indicates strength decrease of samples, which represent negative effect of pore expansion due to freeze thaw on strength parameter of samples.
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