EVALUATION OF BASALT FROM DEER PARK, VICTORIA, AS AN AGGREGATE FOR CONCRETE: A PROGRESS REPORT

The Alboin Reid quarry at Deer Park yields basalt stone with a significant content of secondary minerals resulting from deuteric alteration. The nature of these secondary minerals, which include expanding clay minerals, secondary minerals, which include expanding clay minerals, has led to doubts on the long-term performance of concrete containing this stone, and some rejection of the material by public authorities in Victoria. Investigations into the mineralogy of the stone are described and results are reported of the behaviour of Deer Park basalt and other basalts from Victoria and Tasmania to cycles of wetting and drying. A comprehensive programme of concrete testing has been established to provide data on compressive and tensile strengths, dimensional movement, and modulus of elasticity of specimens for the full range of practical strength grades exposed to exacting cyclic conditions for more than eighteen months. Results of this continuing work are presented and tentative conclusions are drawn which indicate that concrete made with aggregate currently being won from the Albion Reid quarry at Deer Park whether of grey or green basalt, will behave satisfactorily.

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  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Cole, W F
  • BERESFORD, F D
• Conference:
  • Australian Road Research Board Conference Proc
• Publication Date: 1976-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 30-59
• Serial:
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 8

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Basalt coarse aggregates; Compression tests; Concrete aggregates; Concrete tests; Moisture content; Tensile strength
• Old TRIS Terms: Compressive strength tests; Cycles
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149480
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 13 1977 12:00AM