Petro-mechanical characteristics of the Eocene and Miocene foundation carbonate rocks of New Cairo City | ||||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||||
| Article 12, Volume 7, 7th International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, May 2008, Page 161-169 PDF (414.86 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2008.45424 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mostafa A. M. SAAD1; Samir A. AWAD2; Waleed A. AGILA2 | ||||
| 1Department of Civil Eng., Higher Technological Institute, Tenth of Ramadan, Egypt. | ||||
| 2Department of Geology, Ain Shams University, 11566 Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Being the inherent attributes of carbonate rocks, the petrographic characteristics such as mineral composition, texture, detrital materials, porosity and microstructures are very important factors that influence their compressive strength. Different in situ and laboratory tests were conducted to investigate petrographic characteristics and compressive strength of the Eocene and Miocene carbonate rocks of New Cairo City. The results show that the uniaxial compressive strength of carbonate rocks increase with decrease allochem fragments, idiotopic crystals, detrital materials and porosity. On the other hand, their uniaxial compressive strength increase with increase cemented materials, hypidiotopic crystals within the rock. The relationships of calcite cemented materials crystal size with rock strength indicated that; the fine crystals have best relations with rock strength parameters than the large crystals. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| petrographic characteristics; carbonate rocks; uniaxial compressive strength; New Cairo City | ||||
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