Mechanical quality of bedrock with increasing ductile deformation

Geomaterials as construction aggregates: a state-of-the-art

“…As quality of aggregates is primarily governed by compositional and genetic factors of aggregate source rocks, focus on the characterization of mineralogical composition and detailed petrographic description of these rock masses is fundamental for correct interpretation of other technological tests and for understanding of their durability (Ramsay 1965;Hartley 1974;Ramsay et al 1974;Kazi and Al-Mansour 1980b;Brattli 1992;Irfan 1994;Korkanç and Tuğrul 2004 (Přikryl 2001(Přikryl , 2006Åkesson et al 2003) and from the increased interest of the detailed study of rock microfabrics and/or decay characteristics of aggregates source rocks and their influence on technological properties of produced aggregates (Shakoor et al 1982;Goswami 1984b;Akpokodje and Hudec 1994;Brattli 1994;Kühnel et al 1994;Tuğrul and Zarif 1999;Räisänen et al 2003Persson and Göransson 2005;Pomonis et al 2007;Rigopoulos et al 2010Rigopoulos et al , 2012Rigopoulos et al , 2013Rigopoulos et al , 2014Ündül and Tuğrul 2012;Diamantis et al 2014).…”