Jörn Wichert

Slate as Dimension Stone (eBook, PDF)

Origin, Standards, Properties, Mining and Deposits

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive review devoted exclusively to slate as dimension stone. Beginning with a description of the slate as dimension stone, the book describes the origin of slate and related geological phenomena.

It thoroughly explains key data acquisition methods and techniques, which are accompanied by extensive data. In turn, slate standards are introduced and compared with regard to their importance for product quality. The book covers in detail the specific petrographical, fabric, strength, physical properties and weathering behaviour of slates.

The chapter on mining and production provides an overview of the different forms of exploitation and related geotechnical aspects, together with production and workflow design, from the beginning to the final product.

The second part comprises a thorough description of worldwide slate deposits and their geology, properties and appearance as well as a brief introduction of the history.

Given its scope and accessible format, the book represents an essential guide for scientists, engineers, and professionals in geology, conservation science, architecture, and mining, as well as readers who are active in the slate industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030356675
• Artikelnr.: 58690642

Autorenporträt

Jörn Wichert has been working with slate as a building stone for more than 25 years and has visited numerous deposits in Europe and the USA in this context. He has conducted deposit surveys and extensive material science investigations for a wide variety of slate deposits. These include determining geological setting, stability calculations for mines as well as petrographic, mineralogical, and rock mechanical investigations. Jörn Wichert s main occupation is dealing with engineering geological and geotechnical issues in the field of mass movements such as rockfalls and landslides. This includes numerical models for stability calculations, safety concepts for slopes and the planning as well as the installation of monitoring systems and the development of expert systems. This work took the author to Svaneti in the Greater Caucasus (Georgia). This region consists largely of slate, so he also conducted initial investigations on the material properties and mining potentials.

Another field of research for the author is the influence of fires on the strength of sandstone as a building stone and of forest fires on the stability of sandstone rocks in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, a mountain range which stretches across the border between Germany and the Czech Republic.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Slate in architecture.- 2.The origin of slate.- 3.Methodology and standards.- 4.Properties of slate.- 5.Weathering of slate.- 6.Mining of slate and production.- 7.Slate deposits.