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Characterization of natural stone material used in the Nordic eastern urban and costal environment

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The report analyses the main properties pertaining to the durability of Finnish granitoid rocks, based upon extensive field and laboratory data collected during the past ten years. Commercial materials have been tested and compared along ten years of production and their frost resistance assessed according to European standards. Laboratory tests have been coupled with non-destructive methods most used on site assessment as ultra-pulse velocity and Schmidt hammer in order to compare the results of commercial materials with materials on construction site. Evaluation of durability has included petrographic analysis, crack density, and for site exposed material, chemical analysis, to understand the environmental effects on it. The material has generally maintained its original properties. It has natural heterogeneity, and it presents higher interlocked cracking network on the surface of the exposed materials. Site samples in some cases have shown chemical changes due to environmental actions.

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We are grateful to: The South-East Finland–Russia ENPI CBC Programme 2007–2013 co-funded by the European Union, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Finland. Kiviteollisuusliitto ry (The Finnish Natural Stone Association) and Rakennustuoteteollisuus RTT ry (The Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT (CFCI)) in a cooperation project on Finnish material properties. Own respective companies for supporting cooperation: Politecnico di Torino, Saint-Petersburg State University, Geological Survey of Finland. Prof. Richard Přikryl for the opportunity given.

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  1. Geological Survey of Finland, P.O. Box 1237, 70211, Kuopio, Finland

    N. Luodes

  2. Saint-Petersburg State University, University Enb. 7/9, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 199034

    E. Panova

  3. Department DIATI, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, 10129, Turin, Italy

    R. Bellopede

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This article is part of a Topical Collection in Environmental Earth Sciences on “Geomaterials used as construction raw materials and their environmental interactions”, guest edited by Richard Přikryl, Ákos Török, Magdalini Theodoridou, and Miguel Gomez-Heras.

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Luodes, N., Panova, E. & Bellopede, R. Characterization of natural stone material used in the Nordic eastern urban and costal environment. Environ Earth Sci 76, 328 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6630-9

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