Effect of Moisture on the Macro Failure Characteristics of Weakly Consolidated Mudstone: Mesomechanism

Table 2

Quantitative results of the main elements.

Element	Dry		Moist
	wt%	at%	wt%	at%
Oxygen	47.18	52.18	47.29	55.38
Silicon	12.38	7.80	17.74	11.83
Iron	4.31	1.37	7.56	2.51
Carbon	20.40	30.06	13.25	20.67
Aluminum	9.31	6.10	10.84	7.52
Potassium	1.14	0.51	1.67	0.80
Technetium	0.04	0.01	0.02	0.00
Magnesium	1.06	0.77	1.63	0.25
Total	95.82	98.8	100	100