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- Highlights and analyzes the distress to buildings caused by sulphate-induced heave
- Describes the formation of pyrite, the processes involved in its oxidation and the various ways in which consequential expansion takes place
- 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
- Photographs and profiles of sulphate development and ingress into concrete, plus case histories from the UK, North America and Ireland add abundant details and clarification
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Book Title: Implications of Pyrite Oxidation for Engineering Works
Authors: A. Brian Hawkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00221-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00220-0Published: 30 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37519-9Published: 01 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00221-7Published: 30 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations, 188 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Civil Engineering, Environment, general, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics