Over the past decades, the burial realm, the most prolonged and arguably the least well‐
understood diagenetic environment, has received significant research attention. Despite …

Heating treatment generally causes thermal damage inside rocks, and the influence of
thermal damage on mechanical properties of rocks is an important topic in rock mechanics …

Large temperature changes may cause degradation in physical and mechanical properties
of rocks. This degradation can be influenced by heating-cooling procedure. In this study, it is …

Weathering processes seriously affect the durability of outdoor marble monuments. In urban
environments, a very common deterioration phenomenon is the dark discoloration or …

With the increasing tendency of rock engineering applications to involve high temperatures,
such as deep geological disposal of nuclear waste (Salama et al. 2015; Verma et al. 2015; …

This paper presents the petrographic and textural characterization of some ornamental
limestones widely used in UNESCO World Heritage Sites in northeastern Italy, and the …

In this study, the physical, mechanical and index properties of 6 different carbonate rocks,
taken from quarries in the East Anatolian region of Turkey and commonly used for …

Our concept of progressive rock slope failures is on the one hand embedded in aggregated
subcritical crack growth mechanisms and on the other sensitive to environmental conditions …

Modern sawing techniques employed in ornamental stones' exploitation produce large
amounts of slurry that can be potentially diffused into the environment by runoff water. Slurry …

Conservation of historical buildings is an important issue and the environmental conditions
seriously affect the monument's stones. The protection of cultural heritage buildings and …