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Physical Weathering Characteristics of Mica-Schist in Sinbuk Area, Chuncheon, Korea  

Woo, Ik (Ocean-System Engineering Major, Kunsan National University)
Han, Byeong-Hyeon (Technical Advisory Team, Samsung Corporation)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.40, no.6, 2007 , pp. 771-784 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study shows the weathering characteristics of mica-schist affected by faulting and metamorphism through laboratory tests. Frozen-thaw test, which simulate the physical-chemical weathering processes in the laboratory, shows the important influence of foliation developed in mica-schist, resulting in $20{\sim}40%$ reduction of UCS according to weathering grade of rock. Slaking durability test was carried out for different weathering grade rock specimens and indicated that the specimens from fault area had a low durability index compared to other relatively fresh samples. XRD analysis allowed to estimate the dynamic evolution of mineral composition through wet-dry cycle in which the chlorite was the most important mineral leached out during slaking test. The creep test indicated that the main deformation produced along the foliation plane. The compacted clay minerals between discontinuity planes influence on the discontinuity shearing properties and result in a big difference between peak shear strength and residual strength. The results of laboratory tests on mica-schist show the possibility of a important deformation along the foliation plane or discontinuity.
Keywords
Mica-schist; Faulting; Physical weathering; Foliation; Discontinuity shear strength;
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