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Main Title Implications of Pyrite Oxidation for Engineering Works [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Hawkins, A. Brian.
Publisher Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2014
Call Number TA703-705.4
ISBN 9783319002217
Subjects Geography ; Civil engineering ; Hydraulic engineering ; Environmental sciences
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00221-7
Collation VII, 307 p. 283 illus., 188 illus. in color. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes Engineering Implications of the Oxidation of Pyrite: an overview, with particular reference to Ireland -- Sampling Potentially Pyritiferous Materials -- Testing of Potentially Pyritiferous Material -- Problems Associated with the Use of Pyritiferous Fill at Ballymun Youth Facility, Dublin -- Remediation of Senior Citizens' Dwellings affected by Pyrite-Induced Heave -- The Effect of Pyrite-Related Heave: A Structural Engineer's Perspective -- The Canadian Pyrite Experience and Comparisons with the Irish Problems -- Pyrite Oxidation and Structural Problems in the Chattanooga (Ohio) Shale, East Central Kentucky -- Iron Sulphides and Surface Heating: Further Engineering Considerations for the Dublin area. The book highlights and analyses the distress to buildings caused by sulphate-induced heave, with particular reference to the recent problems in the Dublin area of Ireland. It describes the formation of pyrite, the processes involved in its oxidation and the various ways in which consequential expansion takes place. For the first time in the literature it discusses the way that buildings can be raised above their supporting foundation walls by the expansion of pyritiferous fill which has been used beneath ground-bearing floor slabs in Ireland. The significance of fractures through the iron sulphide microcrystals for the rate and extent of oxidation is discussed. Photographs and profiles of sulphate ingress into concrete/concrete blocks are presented. Case histories from the UK, North America and Ireland are discussed.
Place Published Cham
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2014
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20130810094231
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03112nam a22004575i 45