Pore Characterization of Volcanic Tuffs Used as Building Stone in Afyonkarahisar (Turkey)

Year 2018, Volume: 21 Issue: 1, 101 - 112, 31.03.2018

Mustafa Yavuz Çelik , Ayşe Ergül

https://doi.org/10.2339/politeknik.385929

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The tuffs have been used as a
building material for hundreds of years. The physical and mechanical properties
of tuffs are affected by the amount of pore and its geometry. The pore
characteristics of the building natural stone of Seydiler and Ayazini
(Afyonkarahisar-Turkey) tuffs were investigated in this article. For
determination of the mineralogical and petrographical properties of the tuff; a
polarizing optical microscope, X-ray diffractometry and scanning electron
microscope (SEM) were used. Tuffs are composed of a mineral assemblage of
various crystals including quartz, feldspar; mafic mineral is biotite and rock
particles with glass cement. SEM images show the presence of numerous voids in
tuffs. The mean value of effective porosity of the Ayazini and Seydiler tuffs
was 37.3% and 36.0%. Mercury porosimetry was used to determine the pore size
distribution. Ayazini tuffs have pore sizes ranging from about 200.000 to 10 nm
and Seydiler tuffs ranging from about 7.000 to 10 nm.  

Keywords

Tuff, porosity, pore-size distribution, mercury porosimetry, building stone

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