The effects of freeze–thaw cycles on the gloss values of polished stone surfaces

Effect of mineralogical and microstructural properties on surface roughness and gloss of some ornamental marbles subjected to polishing process

“…When evaluating the surface quality of polished stone surfaces, to avoid some possible misleading results, the importance of measuring both the surface gloss and microroughness has been also indicated by the same authors. The effect of nonstable climatic conditions (freeze-thaw) on the gloss values of carbonate natural stones was examined by Ozcelik et al [8] Xie and Tamaki [9] conducted polishing experiments for a number of granites. In their study, the mineral optical properties were found to play a major role on the polishing quality, and no correlation could be found between Vickers microhardness parameters and the measured gloss values.…”

Freeze–thaw fracturing in building granites

“…The volumetric expansion of water during freezing: when water congeals its volume increases about 9 %, generating pressure on the walls of the cracks, which favours widening (Ozcelik et al, 2012). For cracking to be due only to the expansion associated with the water to ice phase change, the rock would have to be highly saturated.…”

Effects of freezing–thawing and thermal shock cycles on physical and mechanical properties of filled and unfilled travertines

“…Tan et al [12] investigated that the influence of F-T cycles on the mechanical properties of granite such as strength, deformation characteristics, elastic modulus, cohesive strength and internal frictional angle. Ozcelik et al [20] have observed the effect of temperature variation on the surface brightness of polished natural stones and the relationship between gloss value and some physical, mechanical properties of natural stone samples. There is a huge amount of work related to effects of F-T cycles on the rock properties.…”

“…There is a huge amount of work related to effects of F-T cycles on the rock properties. Most of these studies establish relations between strength, porosity, permeability, pore size distribution, the mineral content and the other parameters for rocks [7,12,18,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”